US President Joe Biden said this in an interview with ABC News on Wednesday.
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A migrant died after a van smuggling her and 11 others through Croatia crashed into a river during a police chase early on Sunday.
The UN-International Organisation on Migration says it has been involved in the evacuation of over 12,974 irregular migrants from certain countries back to Nigeria in the last two years.
The UN says for the fifth straight year, 1,500 migrants perished in the Mediterranean, with the route between Libya and Italy being the deadliest.
Authorities on Monday say eight migrants including six children were found dead, after suffocating from petrol fumes while packed into a lorry container on the west Libyan coast.
The group said the case highlighted an increasingly highly charged stand-off between humanitarian groups seeking to save lives on the open seas and European authourities trying to stem the number of people making the dangerous-crossing.
“Libyan coastguard vessels intercepted two of the migrant boats, the first an inflatable dinghy that had broken down with 125 people on board off Zawiya, just west of the capital, Tripoli,’’ Ayoub Qassem, a coastguard spokesman, said.
The Libyan coastguard rescued 17 people from the boat that sank off the town of al-Khoms east of the Libyan capital Tripoli, the navy said on its Facebook page.
Arbour said this in her remarks to the session on the latest round of consultations on a two-day Global Compact for Migration at UN Headquarters in New York.
About 5,000 migrants were picked up off the Libyan coast by emergency services, Italy’s navy, aid groups and private boats
The local media reported that the number of people turned away by police has been going down in recent months, in spite of the overall increase
Adeola said: “Youths should not just be consulted; if it is just consultation without more, it can be tokenism and such tokenistic kind of consultation would only result to youths giving their views, but not having a meaningful part of the engagement process
Flavio Di Giacomo, an IOM spokesman in Rome, said 103 people were presumed to have died in a shipreck late on Wednesday, from which 27 survivors were rescued and seven bodies were recovered
The Governor of the Delta Beheira province, Mohamed Sultan, said: “18 more bodies were retrieved as at this afternoon, bringing the number of victims to 162
Meanwhile, a compulsory approach was opposed to by many countries, they said on condition of anonymity that following talks by EU interior ministers in Luxembourg
Al-Hussein said that as workers, consumers and taxpayers, they contributed in many ways to the economic growth of all societies, as many studies demonstrated
The ship, named Blue Sky and flying a Moldovan flag, was caught in poor weather near the island of Othonoi northwest of Corfu
In a statement, the navy said that it picked them up in choppy seas late on Wednesday and was ferrying them on Thursday to a port near Syracuse on Sicily’s eastern coast