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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Today MSF crew aboard Oyvon rescued 31 people. "We feared people would be pushed back to Libya" Chiara Milanese, MSF Project Coordinator. After embarking all the people on Oyvon, the crew saw patrol boats arriving at the scene and setting the boat on fire

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

🚨Europe is failing its legal and moral duty to save lives at sea. ⚠️Criminalising NGOs won’t stop people crossing. Outsourcing migration control only puts more lives at risk. Saving lives is a legal and moral obligation. 🔗Read our full statement: searchandrescue.msf.org/news/europe-...

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

🚨This afternoon, 24 people were rescued in international waters by MSF teams and brought aboard of Oyvon. They had been adrift for nearly 2 days in a rubber boat. 5 of them are female, 7 are unaccompanied minors.

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

The #CentralMediterranean is one of the deadliest migration routes, with 26k+ ppl recorded dead or missing Criminalising NGOs won’t stop crossings. People flee what they’re escaping 🚩These deaths are not inevitable: hey are the consequence of EU deadly policies.

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

👍Yesterday, the 18 people who were rescued were all disembarked safely in Trapani, Sicily, which was the assigned place of safety by the Italian authorities.

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

🚨This morning, 18 people were rescued in international waters from a drifting, unseaworthy fiberglass boat. 11 of the survivors are unaccompanied minors, including one young woman. They were all brought to safety aboard the Oyvon. 🧵

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

We're hiring 📢 @msfsea.bsky.social We are looking for a Skipper based in Licata, to operate the MSF vessel in SAR operations and supervise the safety onboard. Apply here: searchandrescue.msf.org/jobs/skipper...

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

‼️6 UN experts warned Italy in a letter on 6 July that the proposed "naval blockade" bill may violate international human rights and refugee law. People crossing the Central Mediterranean already risk their lives to reach safety. This bill would make sea rescue even harder.

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

🎬Join us today for an evening of photography, film, and conversation exploring the realities of migration along the Central Mediterranean route. 📍 CONTACT Art Project Space, Rome 🕖 19:00 Free entry (registration required) 🔗 bit.ly/4eILbgH

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

📽️ Join us tomorrow for the screening of the documentary The Sea Between Us, followed by a panel discussion. 📍Kif Kif, Rome | 7 pm See you there!

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

📢 We’re looking for a Technical Logistics Manager to join our team @msfsea.bsky.social to support the SAR project in its activities on the boat and onshore. ⏳ Start: ASAP 🗓 Deadline: 29 June 2026, 8:00 pm (Rome) searchandrescue.msf.org/jobs/technic...

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

❗️The EU Pact is a brutal escalation of Europe's deadly deterrence machine. It intensifies harmful containment policies.

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

“The men wearing balaclavas were looking at me and laughing while I was drowning,” a survivor recalls —three years after the Pylos tragedy, deadly violence continues in Greece. 🧵

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Thousands of people risk their lives crossing the Mediterranean in search of safety. Saving lives at sea is not a choice — it is a humanitarian and legal duty. For #RefugeeWeek2026, join us for a screening of The Sea Between Us. 📍 Kif Kif, Rome | 📆 18 June, 7 PM

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

⚫️Another avoidable tragedy: 10 people have died in a shipwreck, while 48 were rescued. This is the result of Malta’s continued failure to assist people in distress, and the EU’s refusal to provide safe passage for those seeking refuge in Europe.

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

📢We’re hiring @msfsea.bsky.social We’re looking for a Logistics Coordinator to help define and implement logistics & supply strategies for MSF’s Search & Rescue operations. 👉 Apply now bit.ly/4oeosNG

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

After being rescued in the Mediterranean, survivors urgently want to reassure their families they are alive. But at sea, there’s no network. 📲Since Jan 2023, TSF has enabled 7,500+ survivors to send a safe, pre‑set message to loved ones—bringing relief to their families.

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The Greek government has submitted the draft law implementing the EU Migration and Asylum Pact to Parliament, moving it quickly from consultation to vote.Without meaningful amendments, the bill locks into Greek law border practices that have already produced violence, pushbacks, and human suffering.

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

🎥"One refugee in, one refugee out, it makes no sense." Um Mohammad fled Darfur. Her house was burned. Her papers too. Her son has no birth certificate, and neither does her daughter, born in Libya.

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

📢We're hiring @msfsea.bsky.social We’re looking for a SAR Engineer responsible for the engine room and the equipment maintenance of the ship’s engines, both at port and at sea. Apply 👉 bit.ly/3Q13NQG

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Men, women, and children, after enduring desperate journeys as exiles, are left to fend for themselves. 🎥This is the outcome of more than thirty years of Franco‑British migration agreements.

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

"One refugee in, one refugee out. It makes no sense." 🎥People on the move in Calais are speaking out after the "one in, one out" agreement between France and the UK came into force.

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

The scars remain. In 2024, people rescued by our team shared accounts of interception and violence. These are not isolated cases. Sadly, this is what we hear time and again at sea.

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InfoMigrants @infomigrants.net · 18/05/2026

A small child has died after dozens of migrants were rescued from a boat near the Italian island of Lampedusa in the Mediterranean Sea. According to reports, the cause of death was severe exposure to cold temperatures.

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Italy: Newborn dies after migrant rescue at sea near Lampedusa

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Médecins Sans Frontières @msf.org · 17/05/2026

Seeking safety is not a crime.

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

🔴Violence at sea is intensifying. Civil SAR vessels in the Central Mediterranean face gunfire and threats by the Libyan Coast Guard, putting lives at risk. Silence and complicity allow this violence to continue. Accountability is urgent. @en.sea-watch.org @sosmediterranee.org

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

📢We’re hiring a Field Communications Coordinator. If you have solid experience in humanitarian communications, and the ability to lead and support the SAR communications team, apply here: bit.ly/4eKgB88 This position is open only to candidates with MSF experience.

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Another dangerous and violent attack by EU-funded Libyan coastguard against a civilian rescue vessel. All support and solidarity with the crew and survivors on board #Seawatch5

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Artificial Intelligence is able to recognize that they are people. So why aren’t some politicians? They are not defined by status or borders. They are people whose lives are at risk. Let us act with human-itarian intelligence.

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

We're hiring! 📢 We’re looking for a Technical Logistics Manager to support the SAR project in its activities on the boat and onshore. Apply now: searchandrescue.msf.org/jobs/technic...

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

We are deeply concerned by the new financial agreement between France and the UK. Strengthening dangerous border policies puts lives at risk. People on the move need protection and safe pathways. Read 👉 bit.ly/42mq79V 🧵

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UK asylum: New financial agreement with France will put lives at risk, warns MSF

MSF medical teams in Calais and Dunkirk are witnessing the impact of dangerous policies on people seeking safety

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

⚫In 2026, 1,051 people have lost their lives attempting to cross the Mediterranean. It is crucial to remember that behind every number there is a life: a person with a name, a story, and a future that was cut short at sea.

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Now hiring! Audio-Visual Digital Communications Manager at @msfsea.bsky.social based in Licata, Sicily. If you’re passionate about digital storytelling, social media, and humanitarian communications, apply here: searchandrescue.msf.org/jobs/audio-v...

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Caroline Willemen, former Head of Mission Belgium looks back into her many experiences working with MSF on various migration routes at EU borders and talks about the various forms of violence people on the move are victim of.

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

❗Recent reports highlighting violent practices and pushbacks at Greece’s borders reflect a situation that has been documented for years, both on land and at sea.

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

What if they didn’t need to run from hell? After a critical rescue at the end of February 2024, we mourned those who lost their lives. In tribute to the people we meet at sea, our former cultural mediator, Nejma, wrote this poem. 🖋️

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

📢Join our team! As a Deputy Logistics Coordinator, you'll support in designing, planning & implementing logistical strategies for SAR operations. Apply now 👉 bit.ly/4tonnEM

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

“They took my mother and brother, and they beat us,” said Ahmed*. We met him in 2024 after our team rescued him at sea. His harrowing testimony reflects patterns of violence and abuse against people attempting to cross the sea in search of a safer life.

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

We stand firmly with @en.sea-watch.org and crew of Aurora, who are detained and are now facing fines after rescuing 44 people who had been stranded on an oil platform for five days. As we continue to witness deadly shipwrecks, Italian authorities are still penalising those who rescue lives at sea.

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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 05/04/2026

#Lebanon: Around 2pm Sunday, Israeli forces struck a densely populated area in Beirut, meters from Rafik Hariri Public Hospital, where MSF supports an ER doctor. A mass-casualty influx followed. In the first hour: 4 killed, ~40 injured. More feared as rubble is cleared.

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Sea-Watch (international) @en.sea-watch.org · 07/04/2026

🚨Italy detains our rescue ship #Aurora despite 71 people missing since the horrific Easter shipwreck in the Mediterranean. After rescuing 44 people stranded for FIVE DAYS on an abandoned oil platform, we now face a fine of up to €10,000 ➡️ sea-watch.org/en/italy-det...

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

71 people are reported missing after a boat sank off Italy this weekend. Two bodies were recovered and 32 survivors were rescued by merchant ships. These deaths are the result of political choices that block safe routes and criminalise rescues. www.reuters.com/world/ships-...

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Ships near Italy rescue 32 migrants, 71 lost at sea, charities say

Two merchant vessels near the Italian coast recovered the bodies of two migrants and rescued 32 survivors from a boat trying ‌to cross to Europe from Libya on Easter weekend, rescue charities said, c...

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

⚫️Another tragic and preventable deaths in the central Med‼️ Today, 19 bodies were brought to Lampedusa after a rescue by Italian Coast Guard. They likely died from hypothermia and Europe’s policy of deterrence, obstruction of rescues and lack of safe routes.

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

🟢Court win: The Italian court of Salerno annulled the third detention order against our SAR vessel Geo Barents, operated between 2021 and 2024. Read the statement 👉 bit.ly/3NTqhSu

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Italian Court annuls third detention of Geo Barents

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

For the second time in just over a year, UpRights and StraLi, this time together with @msf.org and Pro Iura, have obtained urgent interim measures from the UN Human Rights Committee against #Malta for its failure to rescue people in distress in the #Mediterranean. Read more tinyurl.com/sp8bya9z

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MSF Sea @msfsea.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

🌊 We’re hiring an Engagement & Outreach Officer to organise events & public appearances that highlights our SAR work across Italy and Europe 🌍 Build networks, engage cultural figures, and coordinate impactful public activities. Apply now 👉🏽 searchandrescue.msf.org/jobs/engagem...

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Médecins Sans Frontières @msf.org · 25/02/2026

Since our founding in 1971, we’ve grown to a global movement delivering emergency medical care in over 70 countries. Thanks to our 7 million individual donors, we provide care where it’s needed.

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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 26/02/2026

Three years ago, at least 94 people, including 35 children, died near Italy in what is known as the Cutro shipwreck. Humane and rational migration policies are possible, and there is now a rare chance for accountability. Learn more: bit.ly/3OwsMud

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