The migrants had been rescued by The Lifeline humanitarian ship in June and have arrived at the Bobadela Reception Centre, stated the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Thirty migrants from Bangladesh, Côte d’Ivoire, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Mali, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Sudan arrived in Portugal from Malta on Sunday afternoon. Malta’s government had said it would only allow the migrants to land if fellow European Union countries took their quota. The migrants had been rescued by The Lifeline humanitarian ship in June and have arrived at the Bobadela Reception Centre, stated the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The 30 migrants will be looked after by the Portuguese Council for Refugees. The group is made up of 26 men, three women and a four-month-old child accompanied by its mother. The ministry said the arrival of this group is part of Portugal’s commitment to solidarity and European cooperation on migration. “In view of the emergency situation of the migrants rescued by Lifeline, the Portuguese Government immediately informed the Government of Malta that it would be willing jointly to participate in the reception process,” read the ministry’s missive. The Government said a team of inspectors from the Aliens and Borders Service had traveled to Malta to… Read full this story
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