Matar gazes pensively at the seemingly endless stretch of blue horizon. This is the first time he has seen the sea; when he reaches Trapani, it will be the first time he sees Europe. At disembarkation he will be fingerprinted, receive a basic medical screening,...
"Your wife is not here!" John is a Nigerian man who travelled to Libya with his wife. He began his journey in late 2016. He spent six months in Sabratha, a coastal city in Libya and one of the major embarkation points for boats carrying migrants to...
“I would not advise anybody to use that route” Nfansu is a primary school teacher-in-training from The Gambia and the breadwinner for his extended family. Due to an injury, he had to stop work and postpone his education, which meant he could no longer earn to...
To find out more about life in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh, listen to a recent podcast by Gordon Watson of MOAS. He interviewed Xchange's GIS Analyst and Bangladesh team leader, Pablo Gallego, about his time conducting surveys in the camps. For more information on...
[caption id="attachment_5471" align="aligncenter" width="1200"] An empty rubber dinghy left floating after the 104 migrants and refugees had been rescued by the private NGO, Migrant Offshore Aid Station ship The Phoenix about 30 miles from the Libyan shore from where they had set out from 12...