*[Enwl-eng] newsletter 5 January 2020

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                              # 57 Sunday, 5 January 2020- edited by Ilaria 
Saltarelli, Laura Harth and Angelica Russomando















                       Making misery pay: Lybia militias take EU funds for 
migrants

                              Maggie Michael, Lori Hinnant e Renata Brito 
per ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS, Tripoli, 31 december 2019 – When the European 
Union started funneling millions of euros into Lybia to slow the tide of 
migrants crossing the Mediterranean, the money came with EU promises to 
improve detention centers notorious for abuse and fight human trafficking. 
That hasn’t happened. Instead, the misery of migrants in Lybia has spawned a 
thriving and highly lucrative web of business funded in part by the EU and 
enabled by the United Nations, an Associated Press investigation for 
Pulitzer Center has found. The EU has sent more than 327.9 million euros to 
Lybia, with an additional 41 million approved in early December, largely 
channeled through U.N. agencies. The AP found that in a country without a 
functioning government, huge sums of European money have been diverted to 
intertwined networks of militiamen, traffickers and coast guard members who 
exploit migrants. In some cases, U.N. officials knew militia networks were 
getting the money, according to internal emails.

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                       2020 Could be Niger’s Year of Reckoning

                              Micah Splangler e Jordie Hannum per Foreign 
Policy, December 20, 2019 – In November, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo 
said that, with the Islamic State’s caliphate mostly abolished in the Middle 
East, the Sahel is becoming the “preferred area of focus” in the global 
fight against the organization. The U.N. seems to share his concern: “If we 
lose Niger, there’s no telling what will happen.” In Burkina Faso the 
beginnings of a massive humanitarian crisis are already underway. The United 
Nations recently reported that over 500,000 people have been forcibly 
displaced from their homes since the beginning of 2019 and in Nigeria, Boko 
Haram continues to terrorize locals, sending more than 40,000 refugees so 
far fleeing north in search of safety. Thousand more are expected to follow. 
In fragile Niger, anyone of these elements could lead to a crisis. Added 
together, they could create an all-out disaster. In September, the U.N.’s 
World Food Program declared a Level 3 emergency for Mali, Niger, and Burkina 
Faso. The designation is the highest emergency classification in the U.N. 
system and signals that the world’s largest humanitarian organization, does 
not have the resources it needs to fully respond to such a complex and 
evolving situation.

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                       10 Conflicts to Watch in 2020

                              Robert Malley per Foreign Policy, December 26, 
2019- Local conflicts serve as mirrors for global trends. The ways they 
ignite, unfold, persist, and are resolved reflect shifts in great powers’ 
relations, the intensity of their competition, and the breadth of regional 
actors’ ambitions. They highlights issues with which the international 
system is obsessed and those toward which it is indifferent. Today these 
wars tell the story of a global system caught in the early swell of sweeping 
change - and of regional leaders both emboldened and frightened by the 
opportunities such a transition presents.

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                       The Mediterranean is confirmed as the main theatre of 
migrant deaths

                              According to the International Organization 
for Migration, the number of deaths of migrants in the middle of December 
2019 decreased by 34% compared to the same period of the previous year: 3170 
against 4800. The trends for this year that has ended are: 1) Global deaths 
of migrants crossing borders irregularly declined sharply; 2) Mediterranean 
sea crossings reached their lowest level since 2014; 3) Horn of Africa 
crossings to Yemen now average over 10,000 persons per month; 4) 4.8 million 
Venezuelans are living abroad, mostly in Colombia, Perú, Chile, Ecuador and 
Brazil. The detailed IOM report, while noting an ongoing decrease, 
emphasizes the Mediterranean corridor which remains the most deadly.

                              In mid-December, at least 1250 men, women and 
children died trying to reach Europe. The Mediterranean, for the fifth 
consecutive year, is confirmed as the main theater of deaths: at least 
1000.Since 2014, more than 19,000 migrants and refugees have died in the 
Mediterranean, more than two thirds of this total have died along the 
Central Mediterranean route linking Libya and Tunisia to Italy.

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                       UN: $ 3 billion for 2020. When will the reform take 
place?

                              The UN General Assembly has approved a $ 3 
billion budget to cover 2020 expenses: an increase of $ 8 million compared 
to what the Secretary General initially asked for. It should be noted that 
since 1973, it is the second time that the UN has adopted an annual rather 
than a two-year budget. Beyond the objectives that are proposed and for 
which this budget is necessary - specifically 17 objectives including the 
elimination of poverty and hunger, the realization of gender equality and 
urgent measures to combat the effects of climate change - in October we 
learned of a crisis in the UN treasury: a serious shortage of liquidity due 
to the lack of regular payment of the annual dues by the 193 Member States. 
Ambitious goals that without a real reform of the system will not only be 
achieved but, in such a context, it will produce the waste of 3 billion 
dollars.

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