EU: Commissioner Lahbib visits Chad

Brussels 08.04.2025 European Commissioner in charge of preparedness and crisis management Hadja Lahbib will visit Chad this week for a mission focused on the situation of Sudanese refugees. Lahbib will travel April 8 to Adré, on the border with Sudan, where the refugees are searching for safety fleeing the horrors of civil war. Since the…

Italian hostage returned from Kenya

Liberated Italian hostage Silvia Romano landed at Rome’s Ciampino airport aboard a special flight at about 2 p.m. (1200 GMT). Silvia Romano conferma: "Mi sono convertita all'islam senza costrizioni. Non sono stata costretta a sposarmi e non ho avuto costrizioni fisiche" https://t.co/QIh2zAfl0S pic.twitter.com/92ah7LrrkO — ilGiornale (@ilgiornale) May 10, 2020 Escorted by masked men from the…

UK aid worker killed in Nigeria

A British woman and a Nigerian man were shot dead, and three others were abducted by kidnappers. #NIGERIA: British 🇬🇧 aid worker was among 2 people #killed in armed attack at resort in #Kaduna state, Fri 19 Apr. Faye #Mooney, 29, working for NGO @MercyCorps, was at Kajuru Castle in Kajuru LGA when suspected kidnappers attacked…

Portugal offers employment to illegal migrants

A group of illegal migrants rescued from the Mediterranean in July by NGO vessel Aquarius have been re-homed in Fundao, a small Portuguese town 260 km north of Lisbon. (Image above: illustration, Fundao region), The group of 19 migrants from Eritrea, Nigeria, Yemen and Sudan arrived in town to receive integration course, including classes in Portuguese…

Sophie Petronin abductors in Mali unclear about intentions

Sebastian Petronin (38)  discovered a video of his mother, in a headscarf and looking frail and tearful, the latest proof the 75-year-old Sophie Petronin is alive nearly two years after she was kidnapped by jihadists and held in the desert of Mali. The Islamist group releases a video showing the hostages Gloria Cecilia Narvaez and…

Salvini offers Spain to host more migrants from Italy

Italy Interior Minister Matteo Salvini articulated that his country is “no longer the doormat of Europe”, while commenting on repelled migrants transported to Italy from Libyan coast by Aquarius NGO vessel, and the proposal of Spain to host them.  Salvini also said that Spain can also host  “another 66,000” migrants who stay in Italy now….

Egypt new law to burden NGOs

Brussels. “The new NGO law in Egypt is bound to put additional burden on NGOs’ activities and restrict the space of debate and discussion in the country” – says the statement by the spokesperson of the European External Actions Service (EEAS) on the new NGO law in Egypt. New law in #Egypt is bound to…