This news roundup is a compilation of tweets made by the IDC Co-ordinator for the Middle East and North Africa Region. For live updates follow @IDC_MENA
Regional:
The “Protection at Sea” dialogue, led by UNHCR was attended by IDC
- Human rights protection challenges affecting migrants at sea
- Morocco highlights migration not a control/security issue but needs humanitarian approach
- Chief of Italian Navy says “Mare Nostrum was not a pull factor”
- IOM Monitoring Migrant Deaths in Three Recent Shipwrecks: Spain, Italy, Yemen
Egypt:
Editorial on civil society amoung fears of repression & silencing
Ethiopia:
Ethiopia sees spike in arrival of Eritrean refugees
Israel:
New immigration detention laws passed
Migrants hope PM will turn over new leaf as Tel Aviv residents file police complaint
Plan to fine African asylum seekers’ employers, making it harder for asylum seekers to find work & settle
Jordan:
Queries over border closure
Libya:
Ten migrants dead and dozens missing
Widespread & systematic torture creates huge need for rehabilitation
Human Rights Watch urges states to suspend returns to Libya