06 November 2025

Regional Focus: MENA - Pt. 1

Short pieces:

The EU and Colonial Continuities: The Externalisation of Migration to Lebanon and Its Impact on Syrian Refugees (Borders and Limitations: The IMS Blog, Oct. 2025) [text]

"Gaza: Food access improves in the south but food convoys fail to reach north directly," UN News, 3 Nov. 2025 [text]
- See also related joint statement signed by 41 NGOs.

"ICJ says Israel must allow aid into blockaded Gaza, provide ‘basic needs’," Al Jazeera, 22 Oct. 2025 [text]
- See also related OHCHR press release and analyses of the advisory opinion on Just Security and EJIL: Talk blog (here and here).

"'It’s like another Nakba': Notes from the West Bank," The New Humanitarian, 4 Nov. 2025 [text]

MSF ordered to leave Libya within a month (MSF, Oct. 2025) [text]

Reports:

Episodes of violence by the so-called Libyan coastguard and other Libyan militias at sea: 2016- September 2025 (Sea-Watch, Oct. 2025) [access]

Fortress in the Sand: EU Externalisation Policies and Trans-Saharan Migration Routes (Médecins Sans Frontières, Oct. 2025) [text]
- Focuses on cooperation agreements the EU has made with Libya, Niger, Sudan, Egypt, and Tunisia.

‘Nobody Hears You When You Scream’: Dangerous Shift in Tunisia’s Migration Policy (Amnesty International, Nov. 2025) [access]
- Also available in French.

Palestinian population in Lebanon: Findings from UNRWA’s digital identity verification (UNRWA, Oct. 2025) [text via ReliefWeb]

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