00:01Days after leaving the Libyan coast on a makeshift boat,
00:04these shipwrecked survivors shared a hot meal for New Year's Eve
00:07aboard the humanitarian ship known as Ocean Viking.
00:11It comes after they fled Sudan, which is in the grips of a civil war
00:15and is facing what the UN has described as the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
00:20The rescued migrants shed their hopes for the new year.
00:25I hope that the whole world will be safe and peaceful, nothing more.
00:30That all people will be stable, even in their own countries.
00:34That people will live well and that there will be human rights for good.
00:38But that good will be for the whole world, if willing.
00:44The rescue marks the resumption of Ocean Viking's operations
00:48after the NGO announced the completion of repairs and enhanced training for crews.
00:53It's a welcome relief for those who were rescued.
00:56Praise God from the Ocean Viking and all my thanks to the crew of Ocean Viking
01:01who rescued us, did their duties, supported us and brought us back to life.
01:06In Libya, people who were seeking life died.
01:09We two were dead, but we seek life. Praise be to God.
01:12We sought life and found it.
01:15Back last August, Ocean Viking suffered an unprecedented attack
01:19when it was fired upon by the Libyan Coast Guard in international waters.
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