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EU in crisis meeting over migrant deaths

European ministers are holding a crisis meeting after more than 700 migrants drowned this weekend while attempting to reach the Italian shore.

20/04/2015

Europe News

EU urged to change course over world's deadliest sea crossing

After yet more lives lost in the Mediterranean sea, human rights activists are demanding the EU changes course on its migration and asylum policies

16/04/2015

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

12/04/2015

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

09/04/2015

My Europe Series

All at sea: Europe's struggle to cope with growing migrant crisis

Thousands of desperate migrants continue to undertake the relatively short but highly dangerous voyage from north Africa to southern Europe

01/04/2015

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

01/04/2015

Syria

UN resolutions have 'failed' people of Syria, say aid groups

On the fourth anniversary of the Syrian conflict, a report by several charities and humanitarian organisations finds that in 2014, the worst year of the war to date, three United Nations Security Coun

12/03/2015

Greece

Many Greeks still going hungry and can't pay for electricity

For two years, Giorgos and Evgenia Kouzilos and their three children have been living without electricity. Athens says 300,000 households in Greece

20/02/2015

Sudan

Darfur - A brief history of Sudan's silent suffering

While Sudan’s north-south civil war was raging in 2003 – the country’s second major internal conflict since it gained independence in 1956 – worrying

18/02/2015

Ukraine

Memories of rebel control in Kramatorsk

Kramatorsk lies 70 miles from the front line of the conflict in eastern Ukraine. It was taken by pro-Russian forces in April last year, before being

28/01/2015

Ukraine

Russia is accused of 'financing illegal armed groups' - Council of Europe

Russia is coming under increasing diplomatic pressure over its alleged involvement in the Ukraine crisis. The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council

27/01/2015

Italy

Syrian migrants paid thousands to board decrepit ship abandoned by crew

The desperate conditions inside the Ezadeen have been revealed as investigators board the cargo ship that was carrying some 360 migrants when it was

04/01/2015

Niger

Niger PM asks for help to deal with Boko Haram refugee crisis

The prime minister of Niger has appealed for international help to confront a looming food crisis compounded by thousands of refugees who have

13/12/2014

Syria

As funds dry up UN cuts aid to 1.7 million Syrian refugees

Funds dry up as UN aid cuts place Syrian refugees in danger of starvation

02/12/2014

Focus

Syria's 'Double Refugees'

31/07/2013

World

Red Cross warns refugees are being forgotten

16/10/2012

World

António Guterres: "we're witnessing human suffering on an epic scale"

19/06/2012

World

Tackling speculators on food prices

11/10/2011

My Europe Series

How do the media decide which stories to cover?

14/04/2011