Speaking in Brussels on Thursday 15 March, Vincent Cochetel, the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) special envoy for the central Mediterranean said that the situation involving migrants trapped in Libya remains very worrying.
The member states are due to step up their efforts to resettle particularly vulnerable people from this region into the European Union, as a means of providing relief to Niger, which has taken in the majority of people that the UNHCR proposed to evacuate urgently...