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Deserting Refugees in the Sahara By Rebecca Murray KUFRA, Libya - As dusk settles over the isolated Saharan town Kufra, young guards order a few hundred migrants lined up at a detention centre to chant "Libya free, Chadians out", before they kneel down for evening prayers. MORE >>
U.N. Warns of Staggering Urbanisation in Asia, Africa By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS - Asia and Africa will account for a hefty 86 percent of all increases in the world's urban population in the next four decades, the United Nations said in a report released Wednesday. MORE >>
Arab Spring Brings Some Sour Fruits By Simba Shani Kamaria Russeau CAIRO - Recent shifts in the Middle East and North Africa have presented several economic challenges such as high unemployment, an exodus of migrants from Libya and a reduction of tourism revenues. Given that economic discontent played a vital role in the Arab uprisings, economic growth has become vital to sustain the fruit of revolution. MORE >>
Can’t Help Helping Refugees By Matt Carr CALAIS, France - It’s 10 am on Saturday morning and a group of migrants is clustered round the entrance to the Migrant Clothes Association in the Calais city centre, eating breakfast provided by the association. Inside, the warehouse is stacked with blankets, tents, trainers and clothes. Some of these will be distributed later by the association’s workers. MORE >>
New Threat Looms Over South Sudan Refugees By Mya Guarnieri TEL AVIV - Thousands of African refugees in Israel face expulsion to dangerous conditions in their countries of origin as Israel hardens its policies. The refugees are increasingly turning to protest. MORE >>
Living on a Meal a Day in Swaziland By Mantoe Phakathi MBABANE - Margaret Gamedze earns a living doing laundry for people in her community in Msunduza Township, which lies about a kilometre outside Swaziland’s capital city of Mbabane. But since the country’s fiscal crisis began, she no longer earns enough to pay the rent for her one-roomed mud shack, which she shares with her five children. MORE >>
Hard to Stay in Libya, Difficult to Return By Rebecca Murray TRIPOLI - At the battered terminal of Tripoli’s tiny Mitiga airport, over 150 young men and women jostle to be repatriated home to Nigeria on Libya’s Buraq airlines. This journey to Lagos is one of hundreds the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has facilitated since the start of the uprising against Gaddafi’s regime over a year ago. MORE >>
Some Swiss Parcels With Migrants In Them By Ray Smith ZURICH, Switzerland - Two years ago, a Nigerian asylum seeker died during a forced deportation attempt from Switzerland. Now, the prosecution has dismissed the case, leaving nobody responsible for the young man's death. Instead of re-assessing the deportation system, Swiss authorities prefer ignorance. MORE >>
Touch of Arab Spring Comes Late to Morocco By Abderrahim El Ouali CASABLANCA - Deadly clashes between police and youth in the Northeastern town of Taza last week suggest that, far from bringing change and stability, Morocco’s new government is simply repeating mistakes of the past, stoking tensions and fuelling a spate of protests against the regime. MORE >>
KENYA Walking Metres Rather Than Kilometres to Fetch Water By Protus Onyango NAIROBI - The acute lack of water in Kenya means families have to trek long distances every day to fetch water. In both rural and urban areas, people often walk as far as 30 kilometres or more to collect water from rivers, streams or wells. But thanks to self-help projects backed by NGOs, some communities are coming up with solutions. MORE >>
ISRAEL Eritreans Flee From Dictatorship to Detention By Jillian Kestler-D’Amours TEL AVIV - Standing across the street from the American embassy in Tel Aviv, more than 200 Eritrean asylum seekers chanted "Yes to justice! Yes to humanity!", and demanded international intervention to stop torture camps in the Egyptian Sinai. Protests by African asylum seekers in Israel are growing, in the face of increasingly tough policies by the Israelis. MORE >>
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