| Woman and child found dead on boat left adrift by Libyan coast guard, says charity. A rescue boat operated by the Spanish charity Proactive Open Arms reportedly found the bodies of a woman and her toddler on a damaged dinghy off Libya’s coast on Tuesday. A second woman was alleged to have been found alive clinging to the wreckage. Proactiva said the Libyan coast guard had intercepted the dinghy after it had been at sea for two days, but left the three stranded in its remains after they refused to board. It tweeted video footage that appeared to show the bodies of the woman and child among the wreckage of the boat. Libya’s coast guard disputed the account, saying it had rescued 165 people from the dinghy and recovered the body of one baby. UNHCR has called for strengthening search and rescue capacities on the Central Mediterranean, where one person died for every seven who crossed in June. | | |
| Situation worsens for displaced Yemenis in Hudaydah. The Norwegian Refugee Council reports that, while the military advance on the port city of Hudaydah has been paused during diplomatic talks, fighting continues outside the city and has displaced more than 33,000 families since 1 June, some of them multiple times. In neighbouring Hajjah governorate, NRC staff found newly displaced people “with nothing but clothing rags for shelter, literally living under trees to keep away from the scorching heat, sun and sandstorms”. Reporting for the BBC, Orla Guerin also visited a camp for the displaced in Hudayah, where she met an 11-year-old boy whose father was killed in an airstrike and who now spends his days collecting water for the family. | | |
| Nineteen reported dead as boat sinks off northern Cyprus. A boat carrying 150 people sank off the coast of northern Cyprus, Reuters reported today. While 19 people have been confirmed dead, rescuers were still searching for 25 others who were missing, said Turkey’s coast guard on Wednesday. It said 103 of the passengers had been rescued by the Turkish and northern Cypriot coast guards after the boat was spotted by a commercial ship this morning. | | |
| Asylum-seeking children on Greek islands deprived of school. A report released by Human Rights Watch today finds that fewer than 15 per cent of more than 3,000 school-age asylum-seeking children on the islands were enrolled in public school at the end of the 2017-2018 school year, and that in government-run reception centres on the islands only about 100 children, all pre-schoolers, had access to formal education. HRW interviewed families who had spent up to 11 months at reception centres on the islands, waiting for their asylum claims to be processed. Children at centres on the mainland are able to enrol in public schools. | | |
| Central African Republic refugees struggle in Cameroon. Some 250,000 people from Central African Republic have sought refuge in Cameroon in recent years, even as Cameroon itself faces displacement crises linked to Boko Haram in the Far North and unrest in English-speaking parts of the South West and North West regions. At the same time, UNHCR has only received 20 per cent of the funding it needs to assist CAR refugees in Cameroon. This photo essay by Al Jazeera shows some refugees who have recently fled from CAR to Cameroon and the hardships they are facing as they try to secure food, water and shelter. | | |
| Marina Drazba left a career in the oil field to put her engineering expertise to use on humanitarian issues. As a UNHCR landslide expert based in Bangladesh's Cox's Bazar, she's working with Rohingya refugees to reduce the threat of landslides during the dangerous monsoon season. | | |
Sea arrivals to Spain in 2018 recently overtook sea arrivals to Italy, with 18,344 refugees and migrants arriving in Spain compared to 17,781 to Italy.
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