Media Monitoring Highlights
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UN News, AFP, Al Jazeera, UPI and Just Earth News reported that IOM has released $150,000 in emergency, first-response aid relief after learning Monday that devastating floods and mudslides left hundreds dead in Sierra Leone. It quoted IOM Director General William Lacy Swing.
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NPR reported that smugglers off the coast of Yemen threw as many as 280 migrants overboard in the past week, according to IOM. It spoke with the organisation’s Joel Millman.
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TRT, AFP, Al Jazeera, ABC News, Reuters, Global Times, SBS, NPR, CNN all reported that six migrants drowned and 13 went missing on Thursday when smugglers forced an estimated 180 Ethiopian migrants off a boat bound for Yemen. They quoted IOM’s Laurent de Boeck and Olivia Headon.
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Reuters, BBC, IANS, New York Times, World News Network, AP, Huff Post and other media outlets reported that around 50 teenage Somali and Ethiopian migrants were "deliberately drowned" early on Wednesday by a smuggler who forced 120 passengers into the sea off Yemen's coast, according to IOM, the UN Migration Agency. They quoted IOM’s Laurent de Boeck and Olivia Headon.
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Thomson Reuters Foundation, Nam News Network reported that traffickers in Niger are taking African migrants dreaming of reaching Europe on more dangerous routes through the Sahara desert in order to avoid detection after a government crackdown on smuggling, IOM said. They quoted IOM’s quoted IOM’s Alberto Preato and Olivia Headon.
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Balkan Insight reported that while the number of refugees in Bulgaria has fallen significantly, some refugee children still have little or no access to adequate care. It spoke with IOM’s Teodora Nikolova.
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CNN reported that Italy will deploy two military ships to Libya in an effort to deter irregular migration and human smuggling into Europe. It cited IOM figures.
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UN News Centre reported that the UN has scaled up its efforts to tackle the humanitarian crisis in northeast Nigeria, after a visit by IOM Director General William Lacy Swing and the allocation of $10.5 million from a new fund.
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Human Rights Watch reported that asylum seekers and other migrants arriving by sea to Spanish shores are held in poor conditions and face obstacles in applying for asylum. It cited IOM figures.
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The Kathmandu Post, United News of Bangladesh and Dhaka Tribune ran an Op-Ed by IOM Director General William Lacy Swing for World Day Against Trafficking in Persons. The Bangkok Post and Jakarta Post also published Op-Eds by Dana Ladek Graber and IOM Indonesia respectively to mark the event.