100 refugees entered Malta this year

100 refugees reached Malta’s shores so far this year, home affairs minister Carmelo Abela said.

Responding to a parliamentary question by Labour backbencher Silvio Parnis, Abela said that 87 of these asylum seekers were rescued as part of a group, while the remaining 13 were air-lifted.

27 of them hailed from Mali, 24 from Senegal, 16 from the Ivory Coast, 11 from Guinea Bissau, five from Somalia, and one from each of Benin, Burkina Faso and Guinea Conakry.,