Commission européenne | Programme de soutien à la gestion intégrée des migrations et des frontières en Libye
▻https://asile.ch/2017/08/27/commission-europeenne-programme-de-soutien-a-gestion-integree-migrations-front
Le fonds fiduciaire de l’UE pour l’Afrique adopte un programme de soutien à la gestion intégrée des migrations et des frontières en Libye d’un montant de 46 millions d’euros.
En fait, le mot #persécutés était déjà dans la liste, mais je rajoute quand même l’article à la liste de ceux qui abordent la question du #vocabulaire. Faut-il les appeler #migrants #réfugiés #sans-papiers #demandeurs_d_asile #exilés ? Les avis sont partagés :
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Bruxelles offre 200 millions d’euros à la Libye pour freiner l’immigration
La Commission européenne a mis sur la table de nouvelles mesures pour freiner l’arrivée de migrants via la mer méditerranée, dont 200 millions d’euros pour la Libye. Un article de notre partenaire Euroefe.
►http://www.euractiv.fr/section/l-europe-dans-le-monde/news/bruxelles-offre-200-millions-deuros-a-la-libye-pour-freiner-limmigration/?nl_ref=29858390
#Libye #asile #migrations #accord #deal #réfugiés #externalisation
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Gli sbarchi non si fermano: 1600 persone soccorse nel Canale di Sicilia
Non si arresta l’arrivo di profughi dalle coste nordafricane, all’indomani del piano varato dall’Europa per chiudere la rotta dei migranti dalla Libia verso l’Italia. A poche ore dal vertice di Malta tra i leader dei Paesi Ue e dal via libera all’accordo firmato a Roma da Gentiloni e dal premier libico Serraj, le operazioni di soccorso proseguono senza sosta. Nelle ultime ore sono oltre 1600 i migranti tratti in salvo dalle unità impegnate nel pattugliamento del Canale di Sicilia, mentre continuano a susseguirsi le segnalazioni di nuove barche in difficoltà.
▻http://www.lastampa.it/2017/02/05/italia/cronache/gli-sbarchi-non-si-fermano-persone-soccorse-nel-canale-di-sicilia-ODZQa2sa3BO8bnCZU1EKtO/pagina.html
EU has not fulfilled commitments to provide equipment to Libyan Coast Guards – Libyan Navy Spokesman
The EU has not “fulfilled any commitments” to provide the Libyan Coast Guards with equipment to help stem the flow of migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean, a spokesman for the Libyan Navy said Wednesday. “Unfortunately, the EU has not yet fulfilled any commitments and all we hear is propaganda that the EU has provided assistance to Libya and its coast guards,” Brigadier General Ayoub Kacem, a spokesman for the Libyan Navy, told Euronews.
“Nothing arrived from the EU. Even the boats that arrived from Italy are the result of a previous agreement between Italy and the former regime in 2008,” he said, adding that out of the six boats loaned by Italy in 2010, two were then destroyed “by the international coalition during the liberation war.”
The accusation comes after more than 200 migrants drowned in the Mediterranean in the past four days and on the heel of an EU migration summit in Brussels last Friday.
There, EU leaders agreed to strengthen control of the bloc’s external borders, provide additional support to countries of origins — which would include Libya — and reduce secondary movements of migrants within the EU.
They also decided to open host screening centres in African countries although details have not yet been hashed out.
The EU and Libya have been collaborating since 2015 as part of Operation Sophia whose main aim is to identify, capture and dispose of vessels used by smugglers. Its mandate was then broadened in 2016 to train the Libyan Navy and Coast Guard.
The North African nation has also benefited from a €182 million EU Emergency Trust Fund for Africadesigned to protect migrants in Libya and support local communities to cope with the challenge.
But Kacem called on the EU to provide Libya with equipment including ships, life jackets and communication devices, “instead of providing money.”
▻https://corporatedispatch.com/2018/07/05/eu-has-not-fulfilled-commitments-to-provide-equipment-to-libyan-c
Libyan naval attack on charity ship adds new danger to migrant rescue | World news | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/03/libyan-naval-attack-on-charity-ship-adds-new-danger-to-migrant-rescue
However, the seas are becoming as dangerous for the rescuers as the rescued, with the Libyan navy admitting last week that it staged an attack that saw the rescue boat Bourbon Argos, of #Médecins_Sans_Frontières (#MSF) raked with gunfire. When gunmen opened fire on the ship, on the morning of 17 August, the crew hid in a safe room, thinking the attackers would seize them or sink the boat from under them.
“The people on the Bourbon Argos were really scared. They thought they would be kidnapped,” says Eugenio Cusumano, of Leiden University in the Netherlands, who is doing research on migrant rescues. “They did shoot at the decks; they could have killed people.”
The Libyan navy said that it intercepted the boat when checking for illegal petrol smuggling, and insists that any bullet strikes (MSF say 13 hit the bridge and wheelhouse) were accidental. The charity condemned the attack, saying: “This was a serious and worrying attack, with shooting towards our boat which could have put our staff in acute physical danger.”
North Korean oil tanker escapes Libyan navy ship
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/north-korean-oil-tanker-escapes-libyan-navy-ship
A North Korean-flagged tanker carrying an “illegal” cargo of oil from a rebel-held port in eastern #Libya on Tuesday escaped navy ships that were escorting it, an MP said. “The oil tanker took advantage of poor weather conditions to head for the open sea. The ships that were surrounding it were not in a position to follow it,” said a member of the General National Congress, the country’s highest political authority. (AFP)