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African refugees and migrants fleeing war and dictatorships in search of safety on European shores.  (AFP)

‘Fortress Europe’s’ African victims

The European Union’s decade-long crackdown on African migrants is just as appalling as Donald Trump’s draconian immigration policies

Angela Merkel celebrates being elected as the new party chairwoman of the Christian Democrats (CDU) by the party convention on April 10 2000 (Edgar Schoepa/AP)

Merkel and the revenge of the old white boys’ club

For almost two decades, a conservative all-men’s pact has waited to have its political revenge on Angela Merkel

Devastated: The earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia’s Sulawesi in September left more than 1?600 dead and 70?000 homeless. This woman lost her three children. (Jorge Silva/Reuters)

Refugees in Greece feel like ‘prisoners and hostages’

On Samos Island, some 2,000 asylum seekers are crammed in a refugee centre designed to accommodate only 700 people.

A refugee is helped onto the Dignity 1 after having been rescued from a dinghy on the Mediterranean Sea. Photo: Mohammad Ghannam/MSF

The Anatomy of a Rescue

Courtney Bercan tells the story of her first rescue mission on board MSF rescue vessel Dignity 1

Dignity 1

MSF assists in Mediterranean Sea rescues involving 3 000 people in a single day

‘This unbelievable number speaks to the desperation people are facing’

High price of vaccine blocks immunising more refugee children against pneumonia

Make your voice heard in MSF’s initiative to make vaccines accessible

Hundreds drown in Libyan refugee exodus

Refugees panicked and drowned as the overloaded boat they were dumped on sank.

In Africa, refugees struggle to enjoy human rights and freedoms.

Food crisis hits Malawi’s refugees

Prohibited from working, refugees at the overcrowded Dzaleka camp have been surviving on minimal food rations due to donor cutbacks.

A $3.2-billion EU deal with Turkey – which is currently home to more than two million Syrian refugees – to stop migrants coming to Europe has yet to bear fruit.

EU summit: Migrant crisis top of agenda

Delegates will discuss a controversial plan for a new European Union force that could shore up borders without the host country’s consent.

Lesbos founders in the human tide

The camps are full, the volunteers and agencies overwhelmed. Families are sleeping wherever they can.

The ANC’s threat to withdraw from the Rome Statute was highlighted in 2015 when the government did not arrest then Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir while he was visiting South Africa to attend an African Union summit.

Zuma: Blood of refugee crisis is on Nato’s hands

President Jacob Zuma has placed the blame for the African refugee crisis firmly on the intervention policies of Nato and the European Union.