Europe

Euro migration not a crisis, says Gigaba

South Africa received two-thirds the number of migrants the European Union (EU) receives per year, Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba said on Thursday. The migration of people across the Mediterranean Sea to Europe did not in itself present a new “migration crisis”, he told journalists in Cape Town. He said[…]

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EU sets deadline to relocate 160,000 refugees

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has called on EU countries to agree by next week to share 160,000 refugees, as thousands continued to stream across European borders, fleeing from war and persecution. In an impassioned appeal on Wednesday at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, Juncker unveiled a list of[…]

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No end in sight for Europe’s migrant crisis

At least 850,000 people are expected to cross the Mediterranean seeking refuge in Europe this year and next, the United Nations said on Tuesday, giving estimates that already look conservative. The U.N. refugee agency UNHCR called for more cohesive asylum policies to deal with the growing numbers. Many are refugees[…]

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UN to Europe: relocate 200,000 refugees

The United Nations has called on European states to guarantee relocation for 200,000 refugees, as record numbers flee to the continent from war-torn nations. UNHCR spokeswoman Melissa Fleming told Al Jazeera on Tuesday that Europe is a “wealthy” continent that could manage the numbers of people coming in. The UN[…]

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SA not asked to help with refugee crisis: Home affairs

South Africa has not yet been asked to provide help during the European refugee crisis, the Department of Home Affairs said on Monday. Spokesperson Mayihlome Tshwete said the country helped through its contributions to various United Nations agencies, but so far had not been approached by individuals or any of[…]

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Silence from Muslims leaders on refugee crisis: CMRM

As South Africans watch in horror and despair the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Europe, the Claremont Main Road Mosque (CMRM) has strongly criticised the lack of action from global Muslim leaders. In a statement, the CMRM expressed solidarity with refugees fleeing the tyranny of the Syrian regime, the brutality of[…]

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Europe’s human ballast

OPINION by Robert Young Pelton – This summer a quarter of a million people fled across the Mediterranean by small ships and rafts. Lured by smugglers and forced onto discarded fishing boats, the migrants are directed to head north and call for help when they are past Libya’s Bouri oil[…]

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Tens of thousands demand UK takes more refugees

More than 182,000 people have signed a petition demanding that the British government does more to support refugees trying to seek asylum in the country, with the number of people registering their support continuing to rise rapidly. The parliamentary petition went viral on social media sites Facebook and Twitter on[…]

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Chaos erupts at Budapest train station

Hundreds of angry migrants demonstrated outside Budapest’s Eastern Railway Terminus on Tuesday demanding they be allowed to travel on to Germany, as the biggest ever influx of migrants into the European Union left its asylum policies in tatters. Around 1,000 people waved tickets, clapping, booing and shouting “Germany! Germany!” outside[…]

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Migrant trains reach Austria, Germany

Trainloads of migrants arrived in Austria and Germany from Hungary on Monday as European Union asylum rules collapsed under the strain of a wave of migration unprecedented in the EU. As thousands of men, women and children – many fleeing Syria’s civil war – continued to arrive from the east,[…]

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