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Central Med: Mounting number of drownings amid sparking debate on civilian search and rescue operations

During the last week-end 245 people are feared dead or missing in the Central Mediterranean. This puts the number of persons who have died crossing from North Africa to Italy to more than 1,300 since the beginning of the year. Meanwhile, the debate on the impact on the impact on civilian search and rescue (SAR) operations on migration control continues.

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Un peu de douceur dans ce monde de fitna : la BBC nous parle (certes brièvement) des déplacés sunnites d’Anbar et Falloujah qui trouvent refuge chez leurs compatriotes chiites.

▻http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-25909343

Iraq Anbar violence sparks civilian search for safety

In Karbala, accommodation usually designated for pilgrims visiting the holy city was ordered to open by senior Shia clergy.

One Shia official said: “Our Iraqi brothers and sisters of Anbar and their families can stay here as long as they feel necessary.”

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Half-an-hour’s drive from the administrative border is the agricultural town of Ain al-Tamr. With its limited resources, the local library has been turned into a relief centre.

The reading room doubles as a processing facility for displaced families and a makeshift distribution store for humanitarian aid.

Abu Ali is a tribal elder in Ain al-Tamr, who has taken in a number of families from Falluja. Abu Ali meets them in his guesthouse regularly to assess and see to their needs.

Seated in a large hall on the floor covered with Persian rugs that have seen better days, they tell me that the talk of a Sunni-Shia divide exists only in the heads of Iraq’s politicians .