Russian PMCs financier Yevgeny Prighozin (background) as Libyan General Khalifa Haftar’s delegation arrives to meet with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu (Source: VOA) Moscow is deepening its military involvement in Libya while denying to its own people and the world … Read More
Full Transcript ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=11&v=eyoRle2O97M ) Judy Woodruff: Let us first warn that the story you’re about to see contains images that may upset some viewers, especially children. Violence has re-erupted in Libya. The U.N.-backed government there has declared a state … Read More
A BOTTLENECK of 700,000 migrants is waiting in Libya to cross the Mediterranean to Europe, the National Crime Agency has said. The number – greater than the population of Leicester – highlights the difficulties facing the EU in controlling migrants … Read More
A recent summit saw the domestic contradictions in EU nations coming to the fore; the focus is increasingly on getting Turkey and Libya to stop those fleeing from conflict. In the last week of June, political developments within Germany and … Read More
The seven nations under the Trump administration’s travel ban – upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court – include five majority Muslim countries, prompting dissenting Justice Sonia Sotomayor to assert that the entry restrictions were motivated by “animus toward the Muslim … Read More
President Trump cheered the Supreme Court’s decision Tuesday to uphold the administration’s controversial travel ban affecting several mostly Muslim countries, following the ruling on one of the hardest-fought legal battles of his term. “SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS TRUMP TRAVEL BAN. Wow!” … Read More
The European Union’s relief efforts must not contribute to the subjugation of the asylum seekers and deny them their basic human and legal rights. The world seems to be slowly coming to terms with the Libyan refugee crisis. Despite the … Read More
How, in 2017, is African slavery still a widespread tragedy? The answer lies in the populations of people defined by loss and displacement: migrants. In the past couple years, the refugee crisis has presented difficulties regarding safe voyages and entrance … Read More
A statement from the UN has described the EU policy of intercepting people crossing the Mediterranean and returning them to prisons as “inhuman”. According to UN human rights high commissioner Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein “The suffering of migrants detained in Libya … Read More