Tag: rescue
SAAF Oryx performs difficult flood rescue in Mozambique
After a Mozambican military helicopter failed to rescue a stranded Mozambican from a flooded river, a South African Air Force (SAAF) Oryx crew managed...
US military conducts multi-day rescue at sea off Kenya
Members from the US military’s Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa Personnel Recovery Task Force and US Africa Command contract Personnel Recovery...
15 Squadron aids in sea rescue
An Oryx from the South African Air Force’s (SAAF’s) 15 Squadron was called out to the New Constant, an oil tanker 50 nautical miles...
Tunisia migrant ship death toll rises
Tunisia recovered more bodies from a ship that sank off the coast on Sunday carrying African migrants, bringing the death toll to 17, a...
SA soldiers rescue young girl from DRC rebels
A South African infantry platoon was instrumental in rescuing a 10-year-old girl from a rebel force in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), adding...
Malta rescues migrants
A group of 112 North African migrants was rescued from a sinking dinghy and landed in Malta supervised by troops in protective clothing against...
Migrant boat missing off Spain
Spanish rescue services are searching for at least 20 people missing from a migrant boat found adrift in the Mediterranean after a passenger ferry...
Burkina Faso hostages rescued
French commandos rescued four foreign hostages including two French citizens from a militant group in Burkina Faso, France’s military said, adding two elite soldiers...
15 Squadron integral part of rescue technician training
The only SA Air Force (SAAF) helicopter squadron on the east coast – 15 in Durban – recently provided airborne platforms for...
Life and death off the Libyan shoreline
The wreck of the raft was a dot on the sea but as our rescue boat approached we saw a woman make...
Major migrant rescue in Mediterranean
Almost 400 migrants were rescued in the Mediterranean at the weekend as they attempted to cross from Morocco to Spain, Spanish rescue...
Migrant rescue vessel back at sea after international dispute
The migrant rescue ship Aquarius, at the centre of a dispute between Italy and Malta in June after both refused to accept...
Libyan coastguard in major migrant rescue
Libyan coastguards picked up 948 African migrants on inflatable boats in several operations and recovered 10 bodies officials and a witness at...
Hundreds of migrants rescued in the Mediterranean
Spanish coast guards rescued nearly 600 migrants trying to make the perilous crossing from Africa while off the coast of Libya coastguards...
More than 900 migrants rescued by Spain
Spain's coast guard rescued 933 migrants and found four dead bodies in the Mediterranean at the weekend as the country prepared for...
Med migrants rescued by Spanish authorities
Spanish authorities rescued over 500 migrants at the weekend from more than a dozen boats making the Mediterranean crossing to Europe.
Following...
African migrants rescued off Brazil coast
A boat carrying two dozen migrants from West Africa was rescued off the coast of northern Brazil, officials from the state of...
Smugglers rescue migrants, lock them up
About 20 people feared to have drowned on a boat that sank off Libya late last week were rescued by smugglers and...
Migrants rescued by Tunisian navy
Tunisia's navy rescued almost 100 migrants from a sinking boat off its southeast coast hours after eight people being smuggled to Europe...
Migrants rescued by Tunisian navy
The Tunisian navy rescued 98 Tunisians fleeing to Europe when their boat started sinking off Kerkenah, the national guard said.
Separately, the...
Libyan coastguard rescues nearly 500
Libya's coastguard rescued nearly 500 migrants at sea west of Tripoli on Tuesday, a spokesman said, underlining the challenge of trying to...
New EU boat rescue policy under fire from UN experts
The European Union's new policy on Mediterranean Sea rescues threatens life and breaches international standards, two independent United Nations human rights experts...
Migrants rescued off Spanish coast
Over 300 migrants in seven dinghies were rescued off Spain's southern coast after attempting to cross the sea from Morocco, the Spanish...
More NGOs suspend Mediterranean migrant rescues
Two more aid groups suspended migrant rescues in the Mediterranean joining Doctors Without Borders because they felt threatened by the Libyan coastguard....
Eight Med migrants die
Eight migrants died in the Mediterranean and 375 were rescued from small boats on Tuesday, aid group Proactiva Open Arms said.
More...
At least 30 killed during hostage rescue attempt
At least 30 people including civilians and members of the military died after an attempted rescue of an oil exploration team kidnapped...
Migrants rescued by Libyan coastguard
Libya's coastguard rescued an estimated 278 migrants including women and children offshore two different towns west of Tripoli, a spokesman said.
The...
DR Congo park authorities say rangers not killed in rescue
Six Congolese killed in a wildlife reserve in eastern Congo last week were not on a mission to rescue a US journalist,...
Five DR Congo rangers killed in rescue operation
Five park rangers were killed in a joint operation with the army to rescue an American journalist and three park rangers, who...
Two killed in Kenya hostage rescue operation
A senior Kenyan government official was taken hostage with five other people by suspected Islamist militants who attacked the vehicle they were...
Mediterranean migrants rescued by Irish navy
An Irish naval ship rescued 712 people including pregnant women and infants off the coast of the Libyan capital of Tripoli as...
Migrants rescued in Sahara desert
Authorities in Niger rescued over 100 migrants abandoned by traffickers in the Sahara desert as they tried to cross into neighbouring Libya...
Over two thousand people rescued off Libya
The UN refugee agency called for European countries to help Italy cope with an increasing flow of migrants after some 2,500 were...
More than two thousand migrants rescued
Rescuers pulled 2,121 migrants to safety from boats in the Mediterranean late at the weekend and recovered a dead body, the Italian...
Italy rescues 383 Mediterranean migrants
Rescuers saved 484 migrants from boats in the Mediterranean at the weekend and found the bodies of seven men who died attempting...
Italian prosecutor maintains rescue boats in contact with people smugglers
An Italian prosecutor has evidence of phone calls between Libyan people smugglers and aid groups operating rescue boat, he told newspaper La...
One migrant dead, 1,350 rescued in Mediterranean
Italy's Coast Guard and humanitarian ships rescued 1,350 migrants in 12 separate operations in the Mediterranean on Thursday and one person was...
Infant rescued in Mediterranean
A four-day-old baby was one of over 480 migrants rescued by humanitarian ships at the weekend during search and rescue operations in...
A thousand boat migrants rescued
Some 1,000 migrants were saved from leaky boats in the central Mediterranean on Friday and one person was found dead, Italy's coast...
Spain rescues 177 migrants off southern coast
Spanish authorities said on Tuesday they had rescued 177 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa on six boats off the southern Mediterranean coast.
Spain's...
Fifty boat migrants rescued by Spain
Spanish authorities have rescued 50 migrants from Morocco and sub-Saharan Africa who were found on Tuesday drifting in two boats off the...
SAAF helicopter to the rescue – this time on the Cape...
A 22 Squadron Oryx helicopter was used as a platform to launch divers who successfully rescued three fishermen off Velddrif earlier this...
“People’s Navy” goes green
The maritime arm of the SANDF has unobtrusively been adding to its status of "The People's Navy" as an active participant in...
Rescuers battle to find Turkish quake survivors
Rescue workers dug deeper into collapsed buildings in a battle against time to find survivors from an earthquake in southeast Turkey that...
Navy frigate on South Atlantic rescue mission
The South African Navy has deployed a frigate to Tristan da Cunha island in the South Atlantic ocean to provide medical support...
