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- 🚨 We're hiring a Humanitarian Affairs Coordinator to lead advocacy on Search & Rescue operations around Central Mediterranean migration. Shape strategy, engage civil society, amplify voices. Italian speakers preferred! Apply: searchandrescue.msf.org/jobs/humanit...
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- Since 2015, MSF teams in Lesvos have been providing primary healthcare, mental health support, sexual & reproductive health services, outreach, and emergency medical assistance to people arriving by boat. 🧵
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- 🧵We are witnessing a worrying global trend: attacks on NGOs. Greece is no exception! Solidarity and humanitarian aid are not crimes, yet the new migration law criminalises humanitarian work.
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- In 2025, we marked 10 years of @msf.ca in Lesvos. A decade of care, solidarity and standing with people seeking safety. We celebrated with a photo exhibition and a public discussion with the local community. Our commitment remains the same: quality care for all and defending human dignity.
- 🧵“We had a comfortable life in Sudan and leaving it was very difficult. But it was our only option,” says Khaled, who is from Al-Jazirah, Sudan, but is now living in Aswan, Egypt. “Our home country is left without healthcare, older people like me can't stay long without it.”
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- ⚫Another deadly shipwreck: during the night of 19 December, 116 people went missing from a boat according to @alarmphone.bsky.social Tunisian fishermen reportedly found a single survivor on a wooden boat, who said he was the only one to make it. Safe passage, now! alarmphone.org/en/2025/12/2...
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- On Tuesday morning, just a week after a young boy was found dead on the shores of Samos, another shipwreck put 35 lives at risk. Hours later, a man was found dead, while 2 people remain missing, including a pregnant woman carrying twins.
- 🎙️In her voice, Simona, our medical doctor on board Oyvon, narrates what she has witnessed at sea. She reflects on the dangerous journeys that people undertake in search of safety. Moments filled with uncertainty, fear and a loom of hope.
- Every year, hundreds of people go missing at sea. Join us as we mark a decade of rescue operations. Survivors, NGOs & stakeholders will reflect on maritime rescue & humanitarian spaces in the Mediterranean. 📅 Dec 3 I h. 15 📍Via Della Dogana Vecchia, Roma Register 👉 t.co/D37ovsHhxp
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- 🟢Rescue complete Last night, in the dark, the Oyvon team rescued 27 people who were in distress on a rubber boat. The group were in shock, and as one of them told our team, "If you hadn't rescued us, we would have died."
- 🚨This morning, 41 people, who had spent three distressing days at sea on an overcrowded and unseaworthy rubber boat, were brought to safety on board the Oyvon. Three of the survivors are women and 14 are children, nine of whom are unaccompanied. 🧵
- Today around 04:30, MSF crew onboard Oyvon overheard a mayday relay over radio from Frontex's Eagle 1, about a boat in distress with around 50 people on board. Our team proceeded to navigate towards the last known position of the boat after informing all relevant authorities. 🧵
- 🚨MSF is back in the central Mediterranean with Oyvon, our new search and rescue vessel. Refitted & ready, we’re committed to saving lives on one of the deadliest migration routes in the world. 🌊
- 📢MSF is back in the Central Mediterranean with its new search and rescue vessel Oyvon, after almost one year of being forced to terminate operations with its last rescue vessel, the Geo Barents. 🧵 searchandrescue.msf.org/news/msf-rel...
- ⚠️Our solidarity is with the crew and survivors onboard Mediterranea! After 3 rescue operations over the past 2 days, the vessel is currently positioned off Porto Empedocle in Sicily with 92 people who have already survived a shipwreck, including 31 unaccompanied minors.
- 🚨 We’re Hiring @msfsea.bsky.social Project Coordinator: lead MSF’s SAR operational response, analyse humanitarian needs, and represent MSF with national stakeholders, including civil society, authorities, and local NGOs. 👉🏽Apply here: searchandrescue.msf.org/jobs/project...
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- @msf.ca was recently ordered, in a letter from the Libyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to leave the country by November 9. No reason has been given to justify our expulsion, and the process remains unclear.
