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EU aid increasingly taken hostage by migration politics
A new report from Oxfam examining the diversion of development aid to migration control projects. Read More
Eurafrica: History of European Integration, “Compromise” of Decolonization
"After the war, European states actually scrambled to preserve their empires and use them to claim geopolitical leverage vis-à-vis the dominant superpowers to the east and the west, the Soviet Union and the US." Read More
Land migration in Africa twice as deadly as Mediterranean, says UNHCR
"Even as a migrant rescue ship disembarks 88 asylum-seekers in an Italian port, a UN official says the Mediterranean isn't the most dangerous place for migrants. Many more die trying to reach the coast than in the sea." Read More
What drives African migrants to risk their lives?
"A UN study says that a majority of irregular migrants who made the fraught journey from Africa to Europe would do so again, despite knowing the dangers of the trip. Achim Steiner, head of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), explains why." Read More
Refugee crisis: latest news from across Europe
Refugee crisis: latest news from across Europe (15-21.10.19) including:
Croatia’s Schengen Accession: Reinforcing Legal Red Lines Not Borders
Reports on the situation in the Aegean, Lesvos and the Balkans
A flimsy raft, more than 100 souls, and three teenage heroes - or are they pirates? Read More
Desperate African refugees pay to get into Libyan jails – UNHCR
"African refugees in Libya are so desperate that some are bribing their way into detention centres in the hope of eventually being resettled out of the war-torn, lawless country, the United Nations said on Thursday." Read More
EU must rethink migration policy that empowers “unaccountable militias and regimes”, say rights groups
A coalition of civil society organisations working for democracy and human rights in Africa have accused the EU and its member states of empowering "unaccountable militias and regimes" and "undermining rule of law, good governance, Read More
The globalisation of border control and peoples’ resistance
"Forced to leave their homes to flee violence, war or poverty and invisible because they are vulnerable, large numbers of migrants disappear while travelling..." Read More
No choice: Migrants kidnapped for ransom
'Travel now, pay later' schemes offered by smugglers seem to be increasing the risks to migrants and refugees, especially in parts of Africa...." Read More
Cotonou successor: EU-Africa relations at the crossroads
"Negotiators are hoping to break the back on talks for the successor to the Cotonou Agreement, which expires in May 2020, between the EU and 79 countries in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP)." Read More