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Nov 9, 2017
4 min

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 th...

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Libya's coastguard: an EU-funded sea militia?

Rory O'Keeffe

Nov 8, 2017
1 min

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 ...

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Yiannis Mouzalas: misleading the world on refugee numbers

Rory O'Keeffe

Nov 2, 2017
4 min

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 ...

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Rory O'Keeffe

Oct 30, 2017
4 min

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 c...

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Syria 'safe zones' - why they are unlikely to work

Rory O'Keeffe

Oct 29, 2017
2 min

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 curr...

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Economic 'recovery' - how Greece's voters may be blaming and backing the wrong parties

Rory O'Keeffe

Oct 27, 2017
3 min

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 fro...

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Assad 'used gas against Syrian civilians' - UN

Rory O'Keeffe

Oct 27, 2017
1 min

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 rebel-he...

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Europe's far-Right harming refugees across the world

Rory O'Keeffe

Oct 26, 2017
1 min

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, bec...

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Cardinal claims 'states have right' to deny people access

Rory O'Keeffe

Oct 25, 2017
2 min

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 ri...

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UN, Amnesty, call for Europe and US to do more to help refugees

Rory O'Keeffe

Oct 24, 2017
3 min

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 th...

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Greece to nominate Mouzalas as HRC, despite astonishing failures on refugees

Rory O'Keeffe

Oct 23, 2017
2 min

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 th...

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Rory O'Keeffe

Oct 22, 2017
5 min

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 cooperat...

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Tsipras calls for five EU responses to refugees, but all have already been promised, and not carried

Rory O'Keeffe

Oct 21, 2017
3 min

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 under...

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Rory O'Keeffe

Oct 20, 2017
2 min

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 Satur...

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Rory O'Keeffe

Oct 19, 2017
4 min

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...

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Rory O'Keeffe

Oct 18, 2017
2 min

Greece's non-functional asylum service

UNHCR reports that between 1 April 2016 and 6 October 2017, 1,360 people have been returned from Greece to Turkey. The majority – 593 – w...

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Winter looms, but Greece remains unprepared

Rory O'Keeffe

Oct 18, 2017
2 min

Winter looms, but Greece remains unprepared

There are increasing signs that although the situation at refugee camps on the Greek mainland in terms of winterisation is likely to be b...

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Libya: refugees held in hangars following torture

Rory O'Keeffe

Oct 18, 2017
2 min

Libya: refugees held in hangars following torture

More than 14,000 people are being held in a hangar by the Libyan ‘government’ according to the United Nations. They have been ‘rescued’ f...

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Rory O'Keeffe

Oct 17, 2017
2 min

Iraq and Yezidis: troops seize Sinjar

Iraqi and Iranian-backed forces have seized the Yezidi city of Sinjar, where in August 2014, IS committed one of its most horrific massac...

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Rory O'Keeffe

Oct 14, 2017
4 min

Operation Sofia: causing deaths at sea

Those of you who have been receiving these updates for a little while now will be well aware that the EU’s policy in Libya has less to do...

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