Syria to Libya to the EU: How people-smugglers operate
By AFP – Aug 17,2023 – JORDAN TIMES An interforce officer carries a child as migrants, picked up at sea attempting to cross the English Channel from France, are helped ashore from […]
Why Pakistanis are taking the dangerous Libya route to Europe
bbc.com By Caroline Davies BBC News Thousands of Pakistanis are taking the Libya route to seek work in Europe. It involves a boat journey, the perils of which were highlighted […]
‘Evil people smugglers’ are easy to blame for migrant boat tragedies. Here’s the truth
OpinionRefugees Diane Taylor With a disaster off Greece in the headlines, governments are keen to repeat a convenient myth rather than face scrutiny themselves Mon 19 Jun 2023 The Greek […]
‘I want answers’: hope gives way to fury in Greece as hunt for survivors ends
Greece As families mourn, questions have mounted over inconsistencies in the coastguard’s account of events Helena Smith in Kalamata Sat 17 Jun 2023 At a little after 8am on Friday, Fadi, […]
Greece boat disaster: ‘People are waiting for any piece of good news’
bbc.com Related Topics By Lina Shaikhouni, Fernando Duarte & Kawoon Khamoosh BBC World Service Shaheen Sheikh Ali knew something bad had happened when he saw frantic activity in a family […]
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 […]
Dozens of Rohingya flee camps by boat, reviving memories of 2015 tragedy
Reuters International Nov 8, 2018 By Ruma Paul and Poppy McPherson YANGON/COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) – Dozens of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar and Bangladesh have boarded boats to try to […]
Fake life vests seized after refugee deaths in Aegean
DAILY SABAH WITH WIRES ISTANBUL Published October 6, 2015 Police officers inspect life vests sold in a department store in İzmir. Life vests are ubiquitous in the city where their trade […]
European Purgatory: Migrant Smugglers Helping Refugees Return to Turkey
By Riham Alkousaa and Maximilian Popp Konstantinos Tsakalidis/ DER SPIEGEL Refugee Mesut Mahmud The closure of the Balkan route has left tens of thousands of refugees stranded in Greece with nowhere to go. Smugglers who once profited from sneaking migrants deeper into Europe are now offering a new service: A […]
Greek island bears brunt as people-smugglers take Turkish route
By Reuters – Aug 13,2015 – JORDAN TIMES KOS, Greece — Michel Allatuain waited beneath the 14th century fortress at the port of this Greek island on Thursday, desperate for […]
Copts held in Libya by people smugglers freed
Coptic Christian men whose relatives were abducted in Libya leave the foreign ministry in Cairo, Egypt, on Monday. (AP) Agence France Presse Published — Tuesday 6 January 2015 Last update 5 January 2015 10:49 pm | | A A http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/tweet_button.c27d2d163408c0fe087fbfe1c687ce2b.en.html#_=1420535384122&count=horizontal&counturl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.arabnews.com%2Fnode%2F685091&id=twitter-widget-1&lang=en&original_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.arabnews.com%2Fmiddle-east%2Fnews%2F685091&size=m&text=Copts%20held%20in%20Libya%20by%20people%20smugglers%20freed%20%7C%20Arab%20News%3A&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.arabnews.com%2Fnode%2F685091%23.VKumUs6vE5s.twitter&via=Arab_News https://apis.google.com/se/0/_/+1/fastbutton?usegapi=1&size=medium&hl=en-US&origin=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.arabnews.com&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.arabnews.com%2Fnode%2F685091&gsrc=3p&ic=1&jsh=m%3B%2F_%2Fscs%2Fapps-static%2F_%2Fjs%2Fk%3Doz.gapi.en.X-IwcXRmeCQ.O%2Fm%3D__features__%2Fam%3DEQ%2Frt%3Dj%2Fd%3D1%2Ft%3Dzcms%2Frs%3DAGLTcCPH1gfqBQVq8H5mPfSCX_aPgsPLwQ#_methods=onPlusOne%2C_ready%2C_close%2C_open%2C_resizeMe%2C_renderstart%2Concircled%2Cdrefresh%2Cerefresh&id=I0_1420535382127&parent=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.arabnews.com&pfname=&rpctoken=29778477 http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?action=like&app_id=172525162793917&channel=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.ak.facebook.com%2Fconnect%2Fxd_arbiter%2F7r8gQb8MIqE.js%3Fversion%3D41%23cb%3Df27458376e9f9b8%26domain%3Dwww.arabnews.com%26origin%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.arabnews.com%252Ff35cad73d681dfa%26relation%3Dparent.parent&font=arial&href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.arabnews.com%2Fnode%2F685091&layout=button_count&locale=en_US&ref=.VKumUrSXZ8Q.like&sdk=joey&send=false&show_faces=false&width=90 LATEST STORIES IN MIDDLE-EAST Arab News Old regime’s […]