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Trial Begins in Tunisia for NGO Staff Charged with Helping Migrants

Tunisian authorities have charged six staff members of the Tunisian branch of the France Terre d'Asile aid group and 17 municipal workers from the eastern city of Sousse with sheltering migrants and facilitating “illegal entry and residence,” prosecutors said. If convicted, the defendants face up to 10 years in prison. The case centers on humanitarian assistance provided to migrants in Tunisia, a key transit point for tens of thousands of people each year trying to reach Europe. Authorities gave no immediate public timeline…

The voice of the NGO Voiceless welcomes the new arrest

Transferred to Kinshasa, Doudou Ngoy Ilunga is heard at the military prosecutor's office. Rostin Manketa, CEO of Voice of the Voiceless, wonders about the resumption of the trial of the alleged murderers of Floribert Chebeya and Fidèle Bazana. Human rights defenders were killed at the police station on June 1, 2010. Their NGO fears possible interventions to prevent the trial from resuming. She also…

Starvation multiplied by six since the pandemic

Starvation is one of the most serious consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic. According to the new report from NGO Oxfam, published on July 9, 2021, the number of people suffering from hunger has increased sixfold since the pandemic began. Currently, seven people die every minute of the pandemic around the world. But NGO Oxfam…

NGO Sea-Watch files a complaint against Italy

The Sea-Watch organization filed a complaint in Agrigento, Sicily, against the Libyan Coast Guard for trying to kill 63 migrants at sea. Facts go back to June 30 and were filmed by aid workers. After the violence at sea, the legal puzzle. as reported from Rome, Anne TrécaCan the Italian judiciary prosecute the Libyan…

MSF withdraws from two detention centers in

In Libya, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) announces that its medical team will leave the Migrant Detention Centers in al-Mabani and Abu Salim, Tripoli. NGO Médecins sans frontières takes this decision deterioration of the situationdue to the overpopulation of detention centers. "The situation began after a gradual increase in…

NGO MSF warns of “forced deportation” of a

The situation of the 8,500 displaced people who had to flee a Bambari refugee camp in the middle of the country is still very unpleasant: the fire in the Elevage camp two weeks ago. Several international organizations are intervening on the ground to alleviate the humanitarian emergency, but so far the circumstances that caused the refugee's escape are still unclear.…

In Ceuta, a resident helps to find

Since the beginning of the week, the authorities in Ceuta estimate that between 8 and 10,000 people have entered the Spanish enclave from Morocco, in the middle of a diplomatic crisis between the two countries. Among these migrants, there are very many minors. Residents are mobilizing to provide news about the latter to their families.…