News
27 August 2019
Italy approves anti-NGOs laws and blocks humanitarian monitoring airplanes
Over the last weeks, Italian war against humanitarian NGOs working in the Central Mediterranean has intensified with the approval of a new “security law” sponsored by the Interior Minister/Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini and the recent prohibition against NGOs’ airplanes that were...
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27 August 2019
Al-Assad’s offensive over Idlib continues despite diplomatic efforts
Over the past few weeks, the Syrian military, with Russian aerial support, has intensified its offensive over the north-western region of Idlib, despite diplomatic and humanitarian efforts to downgrade the tensions. ...
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23 August 2019
Almost 200 people have died in the Central Mediterranean over the last month
On 27 August, the UNHCR launched one more alarm about a shipwreck in which 40 people are estimated to have drowned off Libyan coasts. At the end of July, the OIM and UNHCR denounced another shipwreck, the “year’s worst Mediterranean tragedy”, in which 150 people were estimated to have died....
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