Anti-migration policies in Libya, Tunisia, and Niger have had dire consequences, as highlighted by the more than 25,000 migrant deaths in the Mediterranean since 2014, a figure that does not fully capture the extent of the tragedy. To address these failures will require substantial policy changes and an evolution in approach to the migration issue.
In the Agadez region of Niger, thousands of migrants many of them children are waiting in squalid conditions, and at risk of human trafficking, after being turned away from Algeria.
MOGADISHU: At least 20 pro-government fighters have been killed in fierce battles with Al-Shabab terrorists in central Somalia, local militia commanders and a clan elder said on Thursday. The fighting erupted on Wednesday after the national army and allied local clan militias launched an offensive in an area of Galmudug state known as Shabelow forest controlled by the Al-Qaeda-linked group. Somali.