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Mediterranean NGO Search-and-Rescue Shutdowns
Spanish NGO SMH has suspended Mediterranean migrant rescue operations due to fuel costs, reducing humanitarian search-and-rescue capacity on a major migration route.
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Spanish NGO SMH has halted its Mediterranean rescue operations, citing unaffordable fuel prices, ending search-and-rescue work along one of the world's most dangerous migration routes (Al Jazeera, October 14). The suspension raises concerns about increased migrant deaths in the Mediterranean as humanitarian capacity shrinks amid rising operational costs. This is a recurring and strategically important humanitarian/migration story given the geopolitical stakes of European migration policy.