By Luigi Jorio AUGUST 11, 2017 Mussie Zerai is often on the telephone helping migrants (Keystone) An Eritrean Catholic priest living in Switzerland says his efforts to save migrants’ lives show the need for nations to rescue more people trying to reach Europe through the Mediterranean. Nominated […]
Migrants packed into a rubber boat wait to be rescued about 20 miles north of the Libyan coast. CREDIT: AP Nick Squires, rome 13 JULY 2017 • An extreme Right-wing organisation is sending a boat to the Mediterranean to try to stop the exodus of migrants from North Africa […]
Epigraph: And whoso saves a life, it shall be as if he or she had given life to all mankind. (Al Quran 5:32/33) By AFP – May 07,2017 – JORDAN […]
By Yolande KnellBBC News, Jerusalem 13 May 2013 From the sectionMiddle East These are external links and will open in a new window Image captionThe Tamar drilling platform sits 25km off the coast of Israel For decades, it seemed that most countries of the Levant, east of the Mediterranean Sea, […]
By NICK CUMMING-BRUCEDEC. 23, 2016 Mediterranean: ‘Worst Annual Death Toll’ Around 100 people are feared to have drowned Thursday, bringing the number of casualties of migrants crossing the Mediterranean this year to over 5,000, according to a U.N. refugee agency. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images.Watch in […]
AFP | Published — Saturday 22 October 2016 Migrants and refugees, aboard a ship, wait in line to be registered after being rescued, in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Libya on Thursday. (AP) ROME: Up to 25 people were missing, feared drowned, Friday after men on a […]
Epigraph: Every human life is precious and sacred; saving a life is like saving the whole of humanity. (Al Quran 5:32/33) Source: Reuters By Crispian Balmer | ROME More than 5,000 migrants […]
Hundreds of thousands of refugees are at risk this summer, attempting a dangerous crossing from Libya to Italy. Here’s how they can be saved Image Credit: AFP The mandate of EU’s naval Sophia Operation should be widened to explicitly encourage search-and-rescue operations Published: 13:22 June 22, 2016 By Matteo Garavoglia […]
THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA: A MASS GRAVE The struggle to identify drowned migrants By Stefania Summermatter JUN 20, 2016 – 11:00 A drawing of the October 3, 2013 tragedy by a Lampedusa school child. (AFP) Three years after the migrant boat tragedy in Lampedusa, in which 366 people drowned, relatives are […]
Migrants from sub-Saharan Africa arrive in Augusta, Sicily, in April. Having been screened for disease and photographed by police, they wait to be bussed to a reception center.Alessio Mamo / Redux DAVID FRUM JULY/AUGUST 2015 ISSUE Illegal migration across the Mediterranean has tripled since the overthrow of Muammar Qaddafi in […]
JUN 16, 2015 – SWISSINFO.CH The asylum centre in Chiasso has registered large numbers of applicants (Keystone) The Dublin agreement – which states that asylum applications must be handled by the country where a refugee arrives – has reached its limits, said Justice Minister Simonetta Sommaruga in Luxembourg […]
Allure of Wealth Drives Deadly Trek Young Men in Senegal Join Migrant Wave Despite Growing Prosperity at Home BY DREW HINSHAW A young man in Kothiary, Senegal, looks at Facebook on a smartphone sent from his father, who lives in France. MACKENZIE KNOWLES-COURSIN FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL KOTHIARY, Senegal—Less […]
Over 43,000 people have already crossed the Mediterranean this year – a fifty per cent increase on the same time last year OLIVER WRIGHT G7 SUMMIT, BAVARIA Monday 08 June 2015 Millions of pounds in British aid funding could be diverted from existing projects around the world and targeted […]
Patrick Kingsley Migration correspondent THE GUARDIAN 9 June 2015 In the darkness far out to sea, Hashem Alsouki can’t see his neighbours but he can hear them scream. It’s partly his fault. They are two African women – perhaps from Somalia, but now is not the time to ask – […]
NEVER ENDING: Migrants sit on a boat during a rescue operation off the coast of Sicily as part of the Frontex-coordinated Operation Triton in this video grab released by Italian Coast Guards (Guardia Costiera) on Sunday. (AFP) AGENCIES ARABNEWS.COM Published — Monday 8 June 2015 LONDON/ROME: British, Swedish, Spanish […]
AP | May 23, 2015 | JORDAN TIMES Migrants queue for a medical examinations at a temporary shelter in Bayeun, Aceh province, Indonesia, Saturday (AP photo) YANGON, Myanmar — UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Saturday urged Southeast Asian nations to deal with the causes behind a growing humanitarian crisis […]
ABDULATEEF AL-MULHIM Published — Thursday 23 April 2015 Last update 22 April 2015 11:42 pm Ask any African why is he in Europe. His reply would be: The Africans are in Europe because the Europeans were in Africa. Nowadays we learn about one tragic incident after another involving Africans desperately […]
Source: SWI ‘Faced with boat disasters, Europe must act’ By Thomas Stephens APR 20, 2015 – 08:57 The weekend’s refugee disaster off the coast of Libya has prompted indignation in […]
With the launch of operation Triton to replace Italy’s Mare Nostrum, which has rescued 150,000 people, the European Union has redefined its priority as securing its Mediterranean border. swissinfo.ch went […]