Open Arms Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/open-arms/ The low down on African affairs Wed, 15 Jan 2020 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Open Arms Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/open-arms/ 32 32 Migrant numbers escalate to post Salvini Italy https://jjcornish.com/2020/01/migrant-numbers-escalate-to-post-salvini-italy/ Wed, 15 Jan 2020 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2020/01/migrant-numbers-escalate-to-post-salvini-italy/ A combination of escalating conflict in Libya and a more accommodating attitude by Italy’s leftist coalition is sending thousands of migrants across the Mediterranean. NGO’s monitoring this traffic say 22 boats carrying 1500 people cast off from Libya this week. The tough, anti-migrant line of right-winger Matteo Salvini is thing of the past in Italy. […]

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]]> A combination of escalating conflict in Libya and a more accommodating attitude by Italy’s leftist coalition is sending thousands of migrants across the Mediterranean.

NGO’s monitoring this traffic say 22 boats carrying 1500 people cast off from Libya this week.

The tough, anti-migrant line of right-winger Matteo Salvini is thing of the past in Italy.

The migrants housed in appalling  conditions in Libya – anywhere between half a million and  800 000 of them – are taking advantage of this.

NGO organisations Sea Watch and Open Arms say this week they’ve rescued 237 people from the unseaworthy boats that people traffickers pack the desperate migrants into.

This year, at least 1000 people intercepted at sea have been returned to Libya – against the express wishes of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

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