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Migrants from Montenegro to Bosnia, Interior Minister requested a meeting

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Interior Minister of the Bosnian-Podrinje Canton (BPK), Nijaz Mušić, requested a meeting with State Minister of Security Dragan Mektić due to a sudden increase in the number of migrants coming to the territory of Goražde from neighboring Montenegro. In the past 12 days, BPK has recorded 86 cases of migrants from the Middle East, Syria, Pakistan, Algeria, and Libya. BPK Interior Minister Mušić stated that Goražde does not have the material and technical capacities, nor the legal basis for hosting the immigrants.

The Goražde community provides rooms, certain quantities of food and hygiene products for the first aid. Police officers give their clothes or money for food. Several times the BPK has organized fundraising campaigns in order to pay a ticket to Sarajevo for the refugees.

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The kidnappers of the Sudanese migrants were arrested

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The Security Forces led by Al-Bunyan al-Marsous arrested in Sirte the kidnappers of the Sudanese migrants, who were in videos that have gone viral in Libya over the last days. The first video showed a man in extreme pain brunt with hot silicon, while the second one consisted of ten migrants lashed repeatedly on their backs.  Al-Bunyan al-Marsous said that the kidnappers were five Libyans and one man from Palestine, adding that the victims were transferred to Ibn Sina hospital in Sirte. The Sudanese Foreign Minister met the Libyan one to protest the videos showed the tortures.

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Brussels wants new refugee resettlement scheme, with 50.000 target

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The EU Commission launched a new scheme for resettling migrants with a target of 50.000 being resettled over the next two years. The European Commissioner for migration and home affairs, Dimitris Avramopolous, declared that EU needs a new plan to provide viable, safe and legal alternatives to taking perilous irregular journeys. The last resettlement scheme was almost a failure, because its aim was to resettle 160.000 refugees from Italy and Greece across the bloc, but only around 29.000 refugees were relocated and some EU members (Hungary and Poland) refused to take part. The Commission proposed also a €500 million in financial support for the member state more involved in migrant flows. The last change proposed by the Commission is an update to the rules for the Schengen border-free travel zone, including the reintroduction of border controls in case of terrorism or internal security threats. Avramopoulos also declared that Bulgaria and Romania should join fully the Schengen area for security reasons.

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Harrowing Journeys – Children and youth on the move across the Mediterranean Sea, at risk of trafficking and exploitation

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Young migrants and refugees set out to escape harm or secure better futures – and face staggering risks in the process.For children and youth on the move via the Mediterranean Sea routes to Europe, the journey is marked by high levels of abuse, trafficking and exploitation.Some are more vulnerable than others: those travelling alone, those with low levels of education and those undertaking longer journeys. Most vulnerable of all are those who, like Mohammad, come from sub-Saharan Africa.These findings come from a new UNICEF and International Organization for Migration (IOM) analysis of the journeys of some 11,000 migrant and refugee children (adolescents aged 14–17) and youth (18–24), as recorded in their responses to the Displacement Tracking Matrix Flow Monitoring Surveys conducted by IOM along the Central and Eastern Mediterranean routes to Europe in 2016 and 2017.

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Bodies of 13 Egyptian migrants found in Libya

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The bodies of 13 Egyptian migrants were found 200 kilometers south of the city of Tobruk in Libya by an army patrol on Wednesday. News channel Libya Now aired footage of a number of bodies scattered around a four wheel vehicle that had seemingly broken down, stranding the passengers.The condition of the bodies indicated that they had passed away long before they were discovered.This comes after a similar incident in July when the bodies of 48 Egyptian migrants lost in the Libyan desert were found. They had crossed Libyan borders and were later abandoned by their guide.Egyptian citizens reportedly cross Libyan borders in search for job opportunities despite the unrest in the country and the continuous warnings issued by the Egyptian Foreign Ministry.

 

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