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Libya detains 600 migrants as Europe struggles with tragedies

Libya says it has stopped several boats packed with migrants since this weekend's shipwreck disaster, and that it is detaining more than 600 Africans who were hoping to reach Europe.

Italy

27 survivors of Mediterranean shipwreck reach Italy, death toll 800

Twenty-seven survivors of Sunday’s (April 19) Mediterranean shipwreck arrived on a coast guard vessel at the Italian port of Catania on Monday night

Libya

Libya echoes Italy in call for help with migrant influx

Libyan officials have echoed Italy’s calls for help as the country struggles to cope with an influx of migrants. One detention centre in Mistrata, in

South Africa

Zuma tries to reassure migrants after xenophobic attacks

Foreigners in South Africa queue up in a makeshift camp to leave the country and escape the wave of anti-immigration violence. Saturday saw tightened

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New born baby among hundreds of migrants rescued of Italian coast

Syria

UN calls for safe passage for Yarmouk refugees

UN officials have visited the Syrian capital Damascus to call for people who want to leave the Yarmouk refugee camp on the city’s fringes, to be

Kenya

UNHCR mulls Kenya's call to close Dadaab camp for Somali refugees

The United Nations’ refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Saturday it had not received a formal request from Kenya to remove a huge refugee camp housing

My Europe Series

Migrant crisis: Flaws in EU policy

This week on Utalk, many of you have commented on our latest edition of Reporter, which focused on the dramatic situation of migrants in Calais, in

My Europe Series

Europe faces renewed calls to ease Syrian refugee mega-crisis

Europe must do more to help Syrians escape the country’s brutal civil war, says the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. In an interview

Syria

Syria: UN calls for aid access to besieged Yarmouk refugee camp

The UN Security Council says crimes against Palestinian refugees in Syria’s besieged Yarmouk camp must not go unpunished. The UN is also calling for

Syria

Palestinians put pressure on Damascus over Yarmouk crisis

The desperate plight of Palestinians trapped amid fighting in Syria prompted dozens of people to demonstrate outside the UN headquarters in Gaza. One

Syria

Palestinians mobilise to save Yarmouk refugees after ISIL attack

A video posted online on Sunday purported to show militants from the self-proclaimed Islamic State advancing into the mostly Palestinian refugee camp

Syria

Syria: Civilians in 'acute danger' at Yarmouk refugee camp, warns UN

The United Nations is sounding the alarm over the “desperate” plight of civilians trapped amid fierce fighting in the largely Palestinian Yarmouk

Germany

Germany: Arson suspected after fire at asylum seekers' residence

Police are probing a suspected arson attack on a building intended for asylum seekers in eastern Germany. Two Germans – currently the only people

Syria

Palestinian refugees outside Syrian capital 'at extreme risk of death'

The jihadist Islamic State offensive has been closing in on the Syrian capital, Damascus. Conflicting reports say Palestinian fighters and Syrian

Syria

Syria: ISIL militants seize parts of Palestinian camp

ISIL militants have reportedly taken control of large parts of a Palestinian camp in the Syrian capital. Video uploaded to the internet purportedly

Chad

Nigerian refugees bear terror trauma from Boko Haram

Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres or MSF) has deployed an emergency team to Chad. The NGO is helping an estimated 18,300 refugees and

Yemen

Saudi Arabia "seeking clarification" about deadly explosion in Yemen camp

Saudi Arabia says it is seeking clarification about an explosion that has killed at least 40 people in a camp for displaced people in Yemen

Yemen

Air strike hits Yemen refugee camp as Saudis consider talks

My Europe Series

Libya on the brink: amid civil war fears and growing ISIL threat what's the EU doing?