The UK is spending a third of its overseas aid budget on supporting migrants and refugees who actually are inside the UK, according to official figures. Meanwhile, its aid to foreign countries is shrinking.
The UN Migration Agency IOM said it is "extremely concerned" about the "increasing number of stranded migrants living in precarious conditions in Assamaka, in the northern Agadez region of Niger."
Shortly after the sun rose Wednesday over the Channel, a small black dinghy weighed down by eight migrants crossed into UK waters, the latest illegal arrivals via this contentious route.
At the conclusion of a fact-finding mission in Libya, the UN Human Rights Council declared that there are "reasonable grounds to believe that crimes against humanity have been committed against Libyans and migrants throughout Libya1
Austria's Chancellor Karl Nehammer visited Sweden and Denmark last week in a bid to form an alliance with Copenhagen and Stockholm to push for tighter migration controls within the EU.