Author: M Barbu

Migrations: l’OIM dénonce le renvoi des migrants en Libye et leur détention arbitraire

Selon les chiffres de l’Organisation internationale pour les migrations (OIM), près de de 1 100 migrants ont été interceptés en large des côtes libyennes par les garde-côtes depuis samedi 27 mars. Ils sont renvoyés dans des camps de rétentions à Tripoli où les conditions sont déplorables. Cinq personnes ont péri pendant des opérations de sauvetage mardi et 77 ont été repêchés, selon l’OIM, qui dénonce le renvoi de ces migrants dans un pays en proie au chaos.

Cameroun: une organisation de défense des droits de l’homme exige la libération de 7 journalistes

Il y a un an, plus de 80 organisations de défense des droits de l’homme et de la presse avaient signé un appel à l’attention de plusieurs présidents africains, leur demandant de libérer les journalistes détenus dans des prisons souvent surpeuplées et dont les prisonniers sont souvent vulnérables à la Covid 19. Au Cameroun, le Comité de protection des journalistes (CPJ) relance le président Paul Biya.

UN’s Libya welcomes prisoner release as start of ‘nationwide reconciliation’

The UN mission in Libya hailed the release of more than 100 prisoners loyal to renegade commander Khalifa Hifter, calling the initiative the start of a “nationwide reconciliation.”

In a ceremony attended by members of Libya’s transitional government, 107 detainees were released from prison in the western city of Zawiya on Wednesday. The prisoners had fought with Hifter’s eastern-based Libyan National Army, which has been embroiled in a civil war against the UN-backed Government of National Accord since 2014.

In rebuke to Russia, Blinken presses UN to quit politicizing Syria aid

Blinken called on the UN Security Council to reauthorize a cross-border aid operation into Syria despite Russian and Chinese opposition.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday demanded aid workers be granted unhindered access to war-torn Syria, calling on the UN Security Council to scale up humanitarian assistance provided to a population whose lives depend on it.

Saudi Arabia human rights abuses detailed in US State Dept. report

One major area of concern for the State Department is the “arbitrary” detention and disappearances of Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz bin Salman and his father.

The US State Department released its annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, and within it raised concerns over numerous areas in which it believes Saudi Arabia is guilty of abusing human rights within its sovereign borders.

Are the warming ties between Turkey, Egypt a sign of shifting geopolitics?

A possible deterioration in its relationship with Washington is driving a rapprochement between Ankara and some Arab capitals.

Despite the cold diplomatic relations between Egypt and Turkey, Ankara on Friday offered to send a tugboat to help Egypt free a massive container ship blocking the Suez Canal, amid news that ties may be warming up between the two countries.