A nation’s tragedy, a continent’s problem – The Guardian view on Libya
If Libya doesn’t find a way out of its current state of chaos, two things are likely to happen: refugee and migrant movements will pick up again this summer in Continue Reading
Asylum seeker returned forcibly by Australia says his refugee claim was ignored
Colombo human rights lawyer Lakshan Dias, who is acting on behalf of the man, Kumara, his wife and two children, said the asylum seeker group was put through an abbreviated Continue Reading
The world’s largest refugee camp, really close?
Dadaab was built in 1992 for 90,000 refugees fleeing the war in Somalia. Today it is home to an estimated half a million people, 350,000 of them registered refugees – Continue Reading
Close the world’s refugee camps – David Miliband
Wealthy nations should accept the most vulnerable 10% of the world’s 19.5 million refugees, Miliband said, and provide economic support to less wealthy countries to integrate new arrivals as full-time Continue Reading
Refugees urged Kenyan leaders to rethink closure of Dadaab camp
Abdullahi Aden Hassan, a father of nine who was one of the first to arrive in the Dadaab camp fleeing the civil war in Somalia in 1992, told the Guardian Continue Reading
It will shut world’s biggest refugee camp at Dadaab
Kenya says it needs to close the sprawling Dadaab camp, home to 330,000 mostly Somali refugees, to protect the country’s security after a string of terror attacks by al-Shabaab. Kenya Continue Reading
How 600,000 refugees got caught up in Kenya’s electioneering
It’s no coincidence that just a week before the statement the Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta officially began campaigning ahead of elections scheduled for next year. The Kenyan government has announced Continue Reading
David Cameron’s U-turn on unaccompanied child refugees should be celebrated?
Who is eligible? Any unaccompanied child registered in Greece, Italy or France before 20 March is eligible for resettlement. No one after this date will be accepted to “avoid creating Continue Reading
After boat sinks off Libya, scores of refugees missing
Twenty-six people were rescued from the inflatable boat which sank on Friday, and were questioned overnight. Eighty-four refugees are still missing after an inflatable craft sank off the coast of Continue Reading
After shipwrecks in Mediterranean, Newborn baby among dead
Twenty-six survivors were rescued by a commercial vessel after a rubber dinghy in which they were travelling sank in the Mediterranean on Friday, a few hours after departing from Sabratha Continue Reading