20th September 2019 | News
By Leonie Jegen and Franzisca Zanker Leonie Jegen is a researcher at the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute where she currently works on the project “The Political Economy of Migration Governance in West Africa” for which she conducted field research in Niger and Senegal...
20th September 2019 | News
By Christian Jakob (@chrjkb) is editor for the German daily taz, die tageszeitung in Berlin. With Simone Schlindwein, he co-authored Dictators as Gatekeepers for Europe: Outsourcing EU border controld to Africa, which was filmed by arte, ZDF and Deutsche Welle....
20th September 2019 | News
The death of a Sudanese man upon interception and a recent UN report again raises alarm over the operations of the EU-funded Libyan Coast Guard praised for “effectively operating” in an internal EU document released by StateWatch. A Sudanese man died a few hours after...
20th September 2019 | News
After four rescue operations, the Ocean Viking is awaiting a port of safety. Maltese and Italian authorities rescue almost 200 ahead of talks on relocation. According to a Tunisian National Guard spokesperson a fishing boat with 23 migrants aboard has sunk off the...
20th September 2019 | News
A slight increase of arrivals to Greece comes with intense debate and potentially grave consequences. Aid workers are warning of a looming catastrophe in the overcrowded camps. However, actual numbers of arrivals and asylum applications remain low compared to 2015/16....
20th September 2019 | News
Around 1000 people were removed from a Sports hall in Grande-Synthe, Northern France, in the largest eviction so far this year. French police “evacuated” around 170 people living inside and around 800 who had settled around the sports hall, offered by local...
20th September 2019 | News
On 16 September 2019, the Tribunal of Rome admitted the criminal trial against two officials of the Italian Coast Guard for the death of 268 people. That was the death toll caused by a shipwreck of a vessel that had set out from Libya the previous night in the...
20th September 2019 | News
On September 17, 94 Namibian refugees were deported from Botswana. A total of 852 Namibian nationals who fled to Botswana in 1999 have refused to voluntarily repatriate and are set to be forcibly returned. The more than 800 refugees set to be forcibly returned after...
13th September 2019 | News
The incoming President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen has announced her proposed team of Commissioners to make up the College for the next five years, along with the “mission” she bestows on each of our aspiring heroes, ready to save Europe. A furore...
13th September 2019 | News
Despite the change of government in Italy the stand-offs on the Med continue. With the Ocean Viking awaiting a safe port for disembarkation, there are no operational civilian rescue vessels in the Central Mediterranean. After 11 days at sea, Malta allowed the rescue...
