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Refugees: the myths and the fears
The online abuse I’ve received while covering the refugee and migration crisis is more than any other story I’ve reported.
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There have been scenes of jubilation in Nigeria after 82 of the so-called Chibok school girls kidnapped by the extremist group Boko Haram were reunited with their parents.
Three years after they were snatched from their school in Chibok, northern Nigeria, 82 girls have been freed by Boko Haram islamist militants. Over 100 girls remain missing.
A second girl, who was among more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in a raid on their school in Nigeria, has been rescued, according to the army.
The Queen is filmed describing Chinese officials as “very rude” after David Cameron is caught on camera describing Nigeria and Afghanistan as “fantastically corrupt”.
A London-based father tells Channel 4 News a young boy featured in an Islamic State video nicknamed Jihadi Junior is his grandson.
Saudi Arabia is leading an alliance of Muslim countries to combat Islamic State and other terrorist organisations.
Caribbean campaigners want Britain and other European countries to pay for the historic crimes of the transatlantic slave trade.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban calls the mass migration of thousands of refugees a “brutal threat” to Europe.
The online abuse I’ve received while covering the refugee and migration crisis is more than any other story I’ve reported.
To put Germany’s mass kindness of strangers down to the war is a way of exonerating other countries for not doing enough.
Is this really the biggest refugee crisis since 1945? What are the facts behind the headlines?
After I reported on scenes of desperation at the Greece/Macedonia border, there was nearly as much outrage about the use of language as the plight of the people.
Struggling to cope with thousands of refugees and migrants passing through the country, Macedonia’s government declares a state of emergency on its southern and northern borders.
The African migrants I met in the Misrata detention centre have a lot in common with journalists and politicians – just look at their attitude to risk and their relationship with the truth.
In the hierachy of sympathy, young African men come right at the bottom. Migrant children or women might be victims, but men? They can look after themselves.