Photo: AFP More than 12 migrants were shot dead by human traffickers last week while trying to escape a camp in Libya, where some were subjected to “torture abuse”, the United Nations said Friday. The incident, previously reported by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) and local sources, occurred on May 23 in the town of Bani […]
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UN to get access to war-stricken Rakhine state in Myanmar
The United Nations said Myanmar’s government agreed Thursday to grant it access to crisis-hit Rakhine state after months of wrangling over how to repatriate hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslim refugees. The western state has been largely sealed off after a bloody military-led campaign last year that has forced some 700,000 Rohingya to flee to […]