Migration: Pope Francis condemns EU’s refugee policy
Story by Frank Hofmann, Christoph Strack •9h The Pope is heading to Marseille in southern France. He’s expected to deliver harsh comments on the living conditions of migrants. Pope Francis has […]
UN condemns ‘heinous killing’ of migrants in Libya
Migrants and refugees, sailing adrift on an overcrowded rubber boat, receive life jackets from aid workers in the Mediterranean Sea. (File/AP) Short Url AFP REUTERS October 10, 2022 TRIPOLI: The UN […]
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 […]
Smugglers ‘abusing’ soft Ireland border checks to get people into UK, National Crime Agency warns
Exclusive: Organised criminals moving human cargo to Ireland via Schengen zone and then exploiting common travel area Lizzie Dearden Home Affairs Correspondent @lizziedearden The Independent Online Officials expressed concern over the rise […]
Traffickers kill 12 migrants trying to flee Libya camp — UN
By AFP – Jun 03,2018 – JORDAN TIMES GENEVA — More than 12 migrants were shot dead by human traffickers last week while trying to escape a camp in Libya, […]
Italy applauds Libya’s decision on migrant ‘search and rescue’ zone
By AFP – Aug 13,2017 – JORDAN TIMES This file photo taken on July 14 shows the Italian rescue ship Vos Prudence run by NGO ‘Doctors Without Borders’ arriving in the port of Salerno carrying 935 migrants rescued from the Mediterranean sea. French NGO MSF announced on Saturday the activities […]
An industry built on human misery
Tracey Ferrier AAP, Petra Kaminsky DPA As nations around the world grapple with the people smuggling trade, vital questions beg answers. How many criminals are involved in smuggling? Who are they? How many desperate people are smuggled each year? And how many lives are lost along the way? Waves of desperate […]
Merkel in Egypt to reduce migrant flows
By AFP – Mar 02,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi and German Chancellor Angela Merkel shake hands following a news conference at El Thadiya presidential […]
People-smugglers caught driving migrants across border
ITALY TO SWITZERLAND FEB 20, 2017 Increased enforcement by the Swiss authorities led to a growth in migrant population in Como (Keystone) Four Ghanaian nationals smuggling migrants from Italy to Switzerland for a fee have been apprehended. They are accused of having illegally transported around 200 migrants across the border […]
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 […]
Libya migrant crisis: Coastguard intercepts boats carrying 850 migrants
(File photo) As weather conditions improve, Libya has become a major hub for migrants and refugees hoping to cross the Mediterranean sea CREDIT: LOUISE GEORGE/AFP/GETTY IMAGES James Rothwell 23 MAY 2016 • 12:34PM The Libyan coastguard says it has intercepted migrant boats carrying more than 850 people across the Mediterranean. A […]
EU proposes scheme to share out asylum seekers
By Reuters – May 04,2016 – JORDAN TIMES A woman carrying her baby is helped up a slope at a makeshift camp for migrants and refugees near the village of Idomeni not far from the Greek-Macedonian border on Wednesday (AFP photo) BRUSSELS — The European Commission proposed a system […]
Italy rescues 4,000 migrants in two days
Source: Mail Online Italy’s coastguard said Tuesday it had rescued some 4,000 migrants in the past two days, adding to fears of a fresh push to reach Europe via that […]
Migrant crisis: Turkish monitors on Greek islands for EU deal
Out of media player. Press enter to return or tab to continue. Media captionJames Reynolds watched the first group of migrants arriving on Lesbos as the new rules came into force Turkish observers have arrived on the Greek islands of Lesbos and Chios to oversee an EU deal on sending […]
Migrant crisis: EU and Turkey hold ‘difficult’ summit
Source: BBC European Union leaders are holding a key summit with Turkey in Brussels on ways of dealing with Europe’s worst refugee crisis since World War Two. The EU is pressing Turkey, through which many migrants transit, to take some back in return for $3.3bn in aid. Turkey is […]
World should have paid more attention to region — UN official
By Muath Freij – Jan 19,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – By Muath Freij AMMAN – The influx of Syrian refugees heading to Europe is a result of the lack of attention paid to the region in the past five years, the president of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) Mogens Lykketoft […]
EU gets 1 million migrants in 2015, smugglers seen making $1 billion
Reuters International swissinfo.ch DEC 22, 2015 – By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) – More than 1 million refugees and migrants came to the European Union this year, while almost 3,700 died or went missing in perilous journeys which reaped huge profit for smugglers, the International Organization for Migration said […]
Over a million migrants and refugees have reached Europe this year, says IOM
Source: The Guardian More than a million people have now reached Europe through irregular means in 2015, the International Organisation for Migration has announced, in what constitutes the continent’s biggest […]
Merkel Slowly Changes Tune on Refugee Issue
By Melanie Amann, Horand Knaup, Ralf Neukirch and René Pfister Der Spiegel In early September, German Chancellor Angela Merkel issued an order to bring thousands of refugees who were stranded in Hungary to Germany. Germany’s basic right to asylum has no upper limits, she said. It was a moment of […]
Most Syrian refugees are just too poor to flee to Europe
The Washington Post Hugh Naylor and Suzan Haidamous BEIRUT — Images of his countrymen streaming into Europe inspired Bassem al-Alyan to make the journey. But like many other Syrian refugees, he faces a significant obstacle. Alyan is too poor to go. Last month, he said, he paid a smuggler $1,500 […]