A healthy baby boy was born today, September 12th, on board MV Aquarius, a search and rescue vessel run in partnership between MSF and SOS Mediterranee.
He was born at 7:00 am ship's time in international waters to Nigerian parents, who have named him Newman Otas. His parents, Otas and Faith, and older brothers Victory, seven, and Rollres, five, were rescued from an overcrowded rubber boat 24 hours earlier.
Currently 392 people are on board after two rubber boats were rescued and one transfer accepted: 155 people on board are under 18, 141 of them are traveling alone –