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MENA region

Ethiopian workers wait outside the Ethiopian Consulate in Beirut, Lebanon. (AP)

MENA’s migrant workers suffering disproportionately amid COVID-19 restrictions

Qatar

Workers wearing protective masks walk by on a street in Qatar’s capital Doha. (AFP)

Migrant workers stage protest in Qatar over harsh conditions, unpaid wages

Europe

Members of a German rescue NGO on a rubber boat during an operation off the Libyan coast. (AFP)

Even a pandemic can’t stop the desperate flow of refugees to Europe

Rashmee Roshan Lall

Italy

A file picture shows a crew member of the German NGO Sea-Eye migrant rescue ship ‘Alan Kurdi’ taking part in a training exercise off the North African coast in the western Mediterranean Sea. (REUTERS)

Migrant ships barred access to Italian ports because of coronavirus

Coronavirus

In this file photo taken on December 06, 2016 migrant workers are seen walking next to a construction site in the Qatari capital Doha. (AFP)

Coronavirus hits migrant workers in Qatar

Turkey

Greek riot police officers walk amid clouds of tear gas near Turkey's Pazarkule border crossing, in Kastanies, Greece March 6. (Reuters)

Migrants, police clash again on Greek-Turkish border

EU

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, right, talks to Germany's Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, center, and Luxembourg's Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn during an European Foreign Affairs meeting, in Brussels, February 17. (AP)

EU agrees to new Libya sea patrols after Austria lifts veto

Turkey

Hints of blackmail. German Chancellor Angela Merkel (L) meets with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in New York, last September. (DPA)

European fears over refugees foreshadow Merkel’s visit to Turkey

north africa

Dashed dreams. African migrants are transferred to a detention centre after being detained in Zawiya in northern Libya. (Reuters)

African migrants allege mistreatment in North Africa