The new Sea-Watch 4 ship is pictured on August 7, 2020 in the port of Burriana, where it is carrying maintenance operations before leaving on its first mission AFP
The new Sea-Watch 4 ship is pictured on August 7, 2020 in the port of Burriana, where it is carrying maintenance operations before leaving on its first mission AFP

Europe

NGO ‘expects’ new Mediterranean rescue ship to be impounded

Medecins Sans Frontiers and Sea-Watch set to launch a new migrant rescue vessel later this month against a backdrop of European hostility

Callum Paton

August 07, 2020

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