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24.12.2020, La Provincia
Al menos dos migrantes han muerto durante una travesía con posible destino a las Islas Canarias, según han anunciado este jueves las autoridades de Marruecos, que han asegurado haber interceptado una embarcación en dificultades frente a las costas de la ciudad de El Aaiún, capital del Sáhara Occidental bajo control marroquí. read more
Language(s): Spanisch / Español Region(s): Spanien, Nordafrika
24.12.2020, Infomigrants
The administrative detention of the ship Ocean Viking was lifted following an inspection by the Italian coast guard. The ship, operated by SOS Mediterranee, had been blocked for five months in Porto Empedocle. It will now resume search and rescue operations off the coast of Libya. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Italien / Malta, Nordafrika, Europäische Union
24.12.2020, Spiegel
Greek border guards systematically abandon refugees at sea. An internal document now suggests that Interior Minister Horst Seehofer concealed a breach of the law. SPD Vice-President Kühnert gives him an ultimatum. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Griechenland / Türkei, Deutschland, Europäische Union
24.12.2020, Reuters
At least 20 African migrants died when their boat sank off Tunisia on Thursday as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to the Italian island of Lampedusa, a Tunisian security official said. The coastguard rescued five people and was searching for about 20 others who were still unaccounted for, the official told Reuters. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Italien / Malta, Nordafrika
An internal document shows how Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer wanted to convince Transport Minister Scheuer to harass German sea rescuers more. Relations with Italy were at stake. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Italien / Malta, Deutschland, Europäische Union
23.12.2020, Jetzt.de
In 2020, volunteers again searched for refugees in distress on their way across the Mediterranean. They rescued thousands from overcrowded, unseaworthy boats. But many others died on the dangerous crossing. Among other reasons, the rescuers' work has become increasingly difficult in recent years. And then the Corona pandemic came in 2020. What did that mean for the refugees and the sea rescuers? Chronology of a difficult year. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Nordafrika, Europa
23.12.2020, Tagesschau
One day before Christmas, the International Organisation for Migration closed the criticised Lipa refugee camp in Bosnia. 1300 people are now without shelter. Some apparently set fire to their tents out of frustration. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Balkanstaaten
Shortly before the end of the year, a large number of refugees on Lesvos addressed the European public in a "Christmas letter". In it, they harshly criticize the EU and the devastating conditions in the new camp. "Even animals have more rights and better living conditions in the EU than we do. Every day we live in fear and hardship," reads the letter, which is available to SWR. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Griechenland / Türkei
23.12.2020, Guardian
A 1,500-page “black book” documenting hundreds of illegal pushbacks against asylum seekers by authorities on Europe’s external borders was released last week and handed over to the EU commission. Compiled by the watchdog organisation Border Violence Monitoring Network (BVMN), the Black Book of Pushbacks is a collection of 892 group testimonies, detailing the experiences of 12,654 victims of human rights violations along the Balkan migration route, one of the most gruelling in the recent surge in migration movements given the alleged violence of border police officers. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Balkanstaaten, Europäische Union
22.12.2020, BBC News
On 18 April 2015 more than 1,000 refugees and migrants left Libya in an overloaded fishing boat bound for Europe. On a moonless night in the Mediterranean the vessel sank. But those who drowned are not forgotten - for the last five years a team led by an Italian forensic pathologist has been on a mission to name them. read more
22.12.2020, The New Humanitarian
COVID-19 put an unprecedented dampener on global mobility this year, but it didn’t stop people being displaced from their homes or asylum seekers and migrants attempting dangerous journeys to cross borders and seas in search of safety and economic opportunity. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Weltweit
22.12.2020, Balkan Insight
Following IOM threats to close the Lipa migrant camp and disperse the migrants, the authorities of Bosnia have promised to convert the open-air camp into an official reception centre and prepare it for winter conditions. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Balkanstaaten
22.12.2020, Pro Asyl
Despite the Corona pandemic, the deportation machinery continued to run in 2020. Although the total number of deportations is likely to be lower than in previous years, the consequences for the people affected remain just as bad - at least, because many countries of destination for deportations were hit hard by Corona. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Deutschland
22.12.2020, InfoMigrants
One woman drowned and two women were rescued off the Greek island of Lesbos on Friday. They had fallen out of an overcrowded inflatable raft carrying dozens of Somali migrants. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Griechenland / Türkei
22.12.2020, Süddeutsche Zeitung
Moria has burned down - but the hopes of many for an end to the misery of the migrants and refugees on Lesbos have not been fulfilled. The new, temporary camp on the former military training area Kara Tepe (Greek: Mavrovouni) is home to around 7,500 people, including many children, pregnant women and the sick. read more
21.12.2020, Zeit Online
In July, the sea rescue ship "Ocean Viking" was detained by Italian authorities because of alleged safety deficiencies. Now it is allowed to leave Sicily again. This means that rescue missions in the Mediterranean can finally be carried out again, the NGO announced. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Italien / Malta
21.12.2020, taz
The situation in the Greek refugee camps has deteriorated further, according to Development Minister Gerd Müller (CSU). After the destruction of the Moria camp on the island of Lesvos by fire, there has been no improvement, Müller told the "Passauer Neue Presse" (Saturday edition). "Everyone assumed that the terrible conditions would improve after the fire, but the reality is unfortunately different." "The new Kara Tepe camp is obviously no better - on the contrary, Doctors Without Borders has now had to start a tetanus vaccination campaign because babies in wet tents are being bitten by rats," Müller explained. "These are appalling conditions - in the middle of Europe." The hardest weeks of winter are still ahead for the refugees, he said. read more
21.12.2020, Süddeutsche Zeitung
Horst Seehofer wanted to initiate a fairer asylum system with the German EU Council presidency. Little has been achieved, except new misery. But Europe is chickening out. That also applies to the German Greens. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Griechenland / Türkei, Europäische Union
21.12.2020, Washington Post
The European Union on Monday warned Bosnia that thousands of migrants face a winter without shelter, and it urged the country’s bickering political authorities to set aside their differences and take action. “The migration situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina is alarming,” the EU commissioners responsible for foreign policy, migration and enlargement said in a joint statement. read more
21.12.2020, jetzt
Winter is making life hell for people-ont-the-move in Kara Tepe camp. The Journallist Franziska Grillmeier speaks about traumatized children, desperate parents - and plans by the EU. read more
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