EU is in denial on rising migrant deaths
RANVIR S. NAYAR December 28, 2021 Short Url https://arab.news/vtune More than 160 migrants died when their boat capsized off the coast of Libya this month as they were trying to […]
2021 in Review: Why worldwide refugee flows surged again despite the pandemic
NextShort Url https://arab.news/4tnvx JONATHAN GORNALL December 28, 2021 In the first 11 months of 2021, some 14,000 migrants had already come to Europe — more than in the whole of […]
No end in sight to the Libyan quagmire
OSAMA AL-SHARIF December 21, 2021 Short Url https://arab.news/ra7sz A decade after the collapse of the long reign of Libya’s strongman Muammar Qaddafi, the divided oil-rich country finds itself at yet […]
An election alone will not bring democracy to Libya
BELABBES BENKREDDA December 16, 2021 Short Url https://arab.news/55sgx Libyans head to the polls on Dec. 24 for the first round of a presidential election that has been years in the […]
It is time for the ICC to address crimes against asylum seekers
Opinions|Migration Due to botched EU migration policies, the Mediterranean has become the scene of continuous abuse and death of refugees. This needs to stop. Mark KerstenConsultant at the Wayamo Foundation […]
Migration across the Mediterranean in context
YOSSI MEKELBERG November 28, 2021 Short Url https://arab.news/zxzme The chilling news earlier this week about the drowning of 27 migrants in the English Channel after their boat sank near the […]
Voting for polarization and disunity in Libya
BARIA ALAMUDDIN November 21, 2021 Short Url https://arab.news/4yacd Is Libya set to erupt in flames all over again? It seems that its most prominent politicians and their foreign backers are […]
France’s ‘surrealpolitik’ polic in Libya
BY ABDENNOUR TOUMI NOV 19, 2021 – 12:05 AM GMT+3A photo illustration by Daily Sabah’s Büşra Öztürk shows French President Emmanuel Macron as Libya’s national flag is seen. Emmanuel Macron, […]
Macron delivers a message of hope on war-torn Libya
KHALED ABOU ZAHR November 18, 2021 Short Url https://arab.news/z9mfk In the first months of his presidency in 2017, French leader Emmanuel Macron hosted bitter Libyan rivals Fayez Al-Sarraj, then-prime minister […]
Foreign meddlers can’t keep their noses out of Libya
HAFED AL-GHWELL November 06, 2021 short URL: https://arab.news/meagw Libya is the perfect demonstration of the inevitable repercussions of failing to plan for the aftermath of a misguided foreign intervention in […]
Europe’s Brutal and Illegal Approach to Migration: “Our Orders Are Clear. Nobody Gets Through.”
Europe’s Brutal and Illegal Approach to Migration“Our Orders Are Clear. Nobody Gets Through.” Months of reporting has revealed the violent – and illegal – brutality the EU is deploying at […]
Pope: Don’t send migrants back to Libya and ‘inhumane’ camps
Pope Francis waves to faithfuls from the window of the apostolic palace overlooking St. Peter’s Square, as he arrives to hold his weekly Angelus prayer in The Vatican. (AFP) Short […]
Evacuation flights for migrants start again in Libya
(File/AFP) October 22, 2021 CAIRO: The United Nations said on Friday that it has resumed humanitarian evacuation flights for migrants stranded in Libya after authorities suspended them for several months. […]
How shameless self-interest is sabotaging Libya
HAFED AL-GHWELL September 25, 2021 Short Url https://arab.news/gsm7x By all indications, Libyans are ready. After more than a decade of chaos and conflict that turned the country into a battleground […]
How the US neocons’ dreams turned to dust
YASAR YAKIS September 19, 2021 Short Url https://arab.news/b2ej4 In a public statement in October, 2007, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe Gen. Wesley Clark revealed details that shed light on […]
Well-founded fears At 70, the global convention on refugees is needed more than ever
International But rich countries need to do more to make it work Aug 4th 2021 ATHENS, AYVALIK AND TIJUANA WHEN THE Turkish coastguard found them in the Aegean in the […]
Humanitarian ships rescue over 700 migrants from Mediterranean in one weekend
By Euronews with AFP • Humanitarian ship Ocean Viking rescues people off the Maltese coast, August 1, 2021 – Copyright Flavio Gasperini /SOS Mediterranee Humanitarian ships rescued over 700 migrants off the coasts of […]
Rescuers pull 394 migrants from dangerously overcrowded boat off Tunisia
A RHIB (rigid hulled inflatable boat) crew member from the German NGO migrant rescue ship Sea-Watch 3 distributes life jackets to migrants on an overcrowded wooden boat. (File/Reuters) Short Url […]
Qadhafi’s son hints at Libya presidential bid
By AFP – Jul 31,2021 – TRIPOLI — Seif Al Islam, the son of slain president Muammar Qadhafi, wants to “restore the lost unity” of Libya after a decade of chaos and […]
Reactions pour in as Israel rejoins African Union 19 years after Gaddafi forced it out
Delegates attend the opening session of the 33rd African Union (AU) Summit at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, February 9, 2020. (AP Photo) MILDRED EUROPA TAYLOR | Head of […]