Aid worker kidnappings “big business”- ex-hostage
Kidnapping of aid workers has become “big business” as militants often work with crime networks to carry out abductions, a senior United Nations official and former hostage said on Tuesday….
1,500 migrants die in the sea in 7 months – UN agency
No fewer than 1,500 refugees and migrants have lost their lives attempting to cross the Mediterranean in the first seven months of 2018, the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR)…
Italy seizes rescue ship that stopped migrants’ return to Libya
March 19, 2018 Italian court has seized a charity ship on charges that its crew helped illegal immigration by rescuing more than 200 migrants from boats before Libya’s coastguard could…