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Rory O'Keeffe
Dec 20, 20174 min read
US threatens aid cut, aims to wreck international system, using Jerusalem
The US government has threatened to cut aid to states which vote against it tomorrow at the UN General Assembly. As noted here...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Dec 17, 20175 min read
Men at refugee camps: overlooked and under-served
The following is a note about a topic on which the author of this review has written at length, on a number of different occasions, for a...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Dec 16, 20173 min read
The system isn't working: debt, poverty and coercion forces refugees back to the unsafe places t
At Kenya's Dadaab refugee camp, an increasing number of people are being forced to return to Somalia even as the war they fled there...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Dec 16, 20172 min read
What's in a name? Greece and Macedonia
Greek national newspaper Kathimerini reports with outrage this morning that Radmila Sekerinska, the Deputy Prime Minister and Defence...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Dec 16, 20173 min read
Greece and EU policy of refugee detention is unjustifiable; torture
Human Rights Watch warns that the Greek government is failing to provide protection to women and girls in the Aegean detention centres,...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Dec 14, 20173 min read
US advice on Turkey risks wild misunderstandings; skirts with disaster
US national security advisor HR McMaster has claimed that Turkey is ‘funding and encouraging’ extremist Islamic and terror organisations....
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Rory O'Keeffe
Dec 10, 20172 min read
'Defeat' of IS does not end Syria's war
Syrian journalist and activist Bahia al Mardini dismisses claims that Bashar al Assad has ‘won’ the war in Syria, and calls for democracy...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Dec 8, 20175 min read
Hizbollah promises to leave Syria in exchange for Hariri continuing as Lebanese PM
Saad Hariri, Lebanon’s Prime Minister, has withdrawn his resignation from the role. We have noted in some detail the situation...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Dec 7, 20173 min read
Federalism unlikely to solve South Sudan's problems
South Sudanese refugees in Uganda are reportedly ‘unanimous’ in their opinion that their state should immediately adopt a federal system,...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Dec 3, 20174 min read
US uses migration to further undermine UN
In yet another measure which signals both its withdrawal from actively participating in international agreements, and its ongoing desire...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Nov 24, 20174 min read
DRC - a lesson in why we must serve people who are not refugees, along with those who are
There are more than 73,000 South Sudanese refugees who have entered DRC since 1 January 2016, and the crossing of the border between the...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Nov 24, 20173 min read
France's sanctions plan against Libya (and the plan's manifest problems)
France has threatened sanctions against the Libyan ‘government’ after French President Emmanuel Macron denounced the sale of men into...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Nov 24, 20174 min read
Greece: how austerity, and forced surplus-chasing, risk wrecking a 'recovery'
Greece has had the highest increase in tax revenue of any of the 35 OECD countries in the last 12 months. Its revenue grew from 36.4 per...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Nov 23, 20176 min read
Turkey, Iran and Russia: how war in Syria has changed three rivals, and what happens next
In a joint statement after talks in Sochi, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish and Iranian counterparts Recep Tayyip Erdogan...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Nov 23, 20172 min read
Rohingyans' parallels with DRC
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, says that Rohingyans have been ‘drained’ by the ordeal they have been put...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Nov 23, 20172 min read
Greece should 'be bridge for Turkey' - Kathimerini
Greek daily Kathimerini has this morning run an examination of the difficulties surrounding the planned visit of Turkish President Recep...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Nov 22, 20174 min read
Lebanon's Hariri 'pauses' resignation
Saad Hariri has ‘paused’ his resignation as Lebanon’s Prime Minister. Speaking in Beirut, to which he has returned for the first time...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Nov 19, 20172 min read
Greece 'not planning to abolish Sharia practice' in Western Thrace - Professor
Professor Ali Huseyinoglu, of Turkey’s Trakya University Balkans Research Institute, moves to reassure Turkish people that Greece is not...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Nov 17, 20172 min read
Russia uses vetoes to end investigations into Syrian chemical weapons use
Russia has used its veto at the UN Security Council for the tenth time in the almost seven years of the Syrian civil war, once again to...
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Rory O'Keeffe
Nov 13, 20174 min read
UNHCR's flawed approach to Africa
The United Nations says it has moved 25 ‘extremely vulnerable’ refugees from Libya to Niger, in the first stage of its new – deeply...
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