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		</div><p>Nearly 300 migrants have disembarked in the southern Italian port of Taranto after their rescue at sea in five different operations by the crew of a humanitarian vessel operated by Doctors Without Borders.</p>
<p>About half of the 293 rescued passengers on the Geo Barents were unaccompanied minors, according to the operators of the mission.</p>
<p>Doctors Without Borders said on Twitter that the men, women and children faced “harrowing journeys, abuse, and detention in Libya” before they set out to cross the Mediterranean Sea.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">ð¢ UPDATE<br />Nine days after the first rescue, our team received the excellent news that the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GeoBarents?src=hash&;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GeoBarents</a> can navigate towards <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Taranto?src=hash&;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Taranto</a> where the 293 children, women and men will be able to disembark. <a href="https://t.co/MQhumFittX">pic.twitter.com/MQhumFittX</a></p>
<p>&mdash; MSF Sea (@MSF_Sea) <a href="https://twitter.com/MSF_Sea/status/1583185057132425216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 20, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>They were rescued in international waters off Libya and Malta, it said.</p>
<p>Most of the migrants were from Gambia, Egypt and Libya, according to the rescuers.</p>
<p>Italian authorities assigned Geo Barents the port in Taranto in the south-east “heel” of the country nine days after the initial rescue.</p>
<p>“The time needed before obtaining a port for disembarking is still too long. It should be assigned immediately after the rescue operation,” said Riccardo Gatti of Doctors Without Borders, who was aboard the ship.</p>
<p>In a separate operation early on Saturday, another humanitarian rescue ship, the Ocean Viking, saved about 35 migrants – including three children – most of them from Syria, in international waters off Malta.</p>
<p>Italy’s new far-right premier, Giorgia Meloni, who took office on Saturday, vowed during her campaign to crack down on illegal immigration.</p>
<p>One of her main coalition partners is League leader Matteo Salvini. As Italy’s interior minister in 2018-19, Mr Salvini sought to stop rescue boats from bringing migrants to Italian ports.</p>
<p>He contends he was safeguarding his country but was prosecuted in Italy for that policy.</p>
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