Tag: African migration

 NOVANEWS AFP Nunu Kidane Who should be held accountable for the continued violations of rights, and the deprivations of life and dignity, experienced by African refugees and migrants? Stories of African migrants in desperate conditions, usually on the Mediterranean Sea heading towards Europe, have become commonplace. It wasn’t always like that. As recently as 2013, when the UN held a High-Level Dialogue (HLD) on migration, a boat capsizing off the coast of Italy claiming the lives of over 400 migrants, many of them young children, sent shockwaves across the world. The Pope issued a moral call for response to the migration crisis. World leaders, including the UN General Secretary, vowed this would ‘never again’ happen, taking it as a turning point for new pol...