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Turkey's increasing engagement in Africa
Turkey’s increased presence in Africa, using its Somalian military base (its first in the continent), which opened in September, is...
Rory O'Keeffe
Nov 12, 20172 min read
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Turkish coastguard fires on refugees in international waters
Seawatch, Refugee Rescue and Lighthouse Relief have called for the UNHCR to investigate an incident in which the Turkish coastguard...
Rory O'Keeffe
Nov 12, 20172 min read
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Greece, EU, 'breaking international law' with policy of detaining refugees
Three October cases decided in refugees’ favour by the Administrative Court in Mytelline have cast doubt over the legality of Greek...
Rory O'Keeffe
Nov 11, 20173 min read
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Arab states order citizens to leave Lebanon, as evidence mounts PM's resignation was a Saudi-led
Saudi Arabia, UAE and Kuwait have all told their citizens to leave Lebanon as soon as possible, and not to travel there unless it is...
Rory O'Keeffe
Nov 10, 20172 min read
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Refugees forced to Europe by Libyan chaos, slavery
Refugees in Italy note that they had no real intention of coming to Europe, until they experienced the chaos in Libya, and realised they...
Rory O'Keeffe
Nov 10, 20172 min read
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Greek politicians (wrongly) blame Turkey for refugee arrivals
Lesvos’ leading politicians, including its Mayor Spiros Galinos, have warned the Greek government that it must take actions to reverse...
Rory O'Keeffe
Nov 9, 20174 min read
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Libya's coastguard: an EU-funded sea militia?
Aid organisation Sea Watch, which operates to rescue refugees on the Mediterranean, has criticised the Libyan coastguard for endangering...
Rory O'Keeffe
Nov 8, 20171 min read
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Yiannis Mouzalas: misleading the world on refugee numbers
Greece’s Migration Policy Minister Yiannis Mouzalas admits Greece is finding the refugee situation ‘more difficult to manage’ as numbers...
Rory O'Keeffe
Nov 2, 20174 min read
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Sahel force; an exercise in folly
The UN meets today to discuss the formation of a five-nation, 5,000 soldier armed force to operate across the Sahel and into Libya. The...
Rory O'Keeffe
Oct 30, 20174 min read
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Syria 'safe zones' - why they are unlikely to work
Crux, a Catholic news site, has become the latest commentator to call for the creation of ‘safe zones’ in Syria, which Syrian people...
Rory O'Keeffe
Oct 29, 20172 min read
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Economic 'recovery' - how Greece's voters may be blaming and backing the wrong parties
Despite increased discussion regarding a Greek economic ‘recovery’, it will take an extremely long time before the state bounces back...
Rory O'Keeffe
Oct 27, 20173 min read
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Assad 'used gas against Syrian civilians' - UN
The United Nations’ Joint Investigative Mechanism reports that Bashar al Assad launched sarin gas projectiles at Khan Sheikun, a...
Rory O'Keeffe
Oct 27, 20171 min read
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Europe's far-Right harming refugees across the world
India's Major General Harsha Kakar argues that Europe ‘has realised its mistake’ in allowing refugees to live in safety and security,...
Rory O'Keeffe
Oct 26, 20171 min read
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Cardinal claims 'states have right' to deny people access
Cardinal Robert Sarah, a right-wing and traditionalist prelate of the Guinean Roman Catholic Church, claims that ‘every nation has the...
Rory O'Keeffe
Oct 25, 20172 min read
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UN, Amnesty, call for Europe and US to do more to help refugees
The UN’s High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, has visited Washington DC to request the US does more to ‘show leadership’ on...
Rory O'Keeffe
Oct 24, 20173 min read
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Greece to nominate Mouzalas as HRC, despite astonishing failures on refugees
The Greek government says it is nominating Migration Minister Yiannis Mouzalas as an EU Human Rights Commissioner. It says it believes...
Rory O'Keeffe
Oct 23, 20172 min read
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Syria: the future
IS appears to have suffered further set-backs in Syria, with the announcement by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF – a US-backed...
Rory O'Keeffe
Oct 22, 20175 min read
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Tsipras calls for five EU responses to refugees, but all have already been promised, and not carried
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has presented the EU leaders' summit (Brussels; 19-21 October) with five measures the EU should...
Rory O'Keeffe
Oct 21, 20173 min read
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Fake news? Turkey, Somalia and Reuters
A brief note in two parts, as an illustration of how the media works. Yesterday, Daily Sabah, reported that Turkey had responded to...
Rory O'Keeffe
Oct 20, 20172 min read
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Turkey and the EU: a deal in danger
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on a state visit to Poland asks the EU to state clearly whether it wants Turkey to be a member of...
Rory O'Keeffe
Oct 19, 20174 min read
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