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A10 WORLD NEWS
Saturday 27 January 2018
UN says 30 African migrants drowned off Yemen’s coast

CAIRO (AP) — A boat that agency said. Of the total, backing an internationally 87,000 people sought to a terrible conflict, on the
capsized off Yemen’s coast 101 passengers were Ethi- recognized government reach Yemen from the verge of famine, with a
earlier this week killed at opians and the rest were against Iran-backed Shiite Horn of Africa by boat in cholera epidemic, and so
least 30 African migrants Somalis. The International rebels since March 2015. 2017. U.N. agencies have on, and yet refugees and
and refugees, the U.N. said Organization for Migration Despite the fighting, Afri- attempted to discourage migrants continue to ar-
on Friday, reiterating warn- said the vessel is believed can migrants and refugees migrants from embarking rive,” UNHCR’s spokesman
ings of the risks involved to have been operated by continue to arrive at the on the perilous trip by hold- William Spindler said.
with travelling to the war- “unscrupulous smugglers” war-torn country, where ing regional awareness The U.N. agencies blamed
torn country. who tried “to extort more there is no central authority campaign in several coun- the prolonged Yemeni
The overcrowded boat, money” from the migrants. to prevent them from trav- tries, including Ethiopia and conflict for subjecting refu-
carrying some 152 people, Survivors reported gunfire elling onward to reach oil- Somalia, to warn people of gees and migrants to the
was heading from the al- as the boat capsized. rich Gulf countries in hopes its dangers. risk of human rights viola-
Buraiqa coast near the Ye- Yemen has been em- of finding jobs and better “Yemen is one of the most tions, including arbitrary ar-
meni city of Aden toward broiled in a civil war pit- living conditions. dangerous places in the rest, detention, trafficking
Djibouti, the U.N. migration ting a Saudi-led coalition IOM figures show that some world, it’s in the middle of and deportation.q
Turkey vows to expand Syria offensive east to Iraqi border

to the Syrian Observatory leading to the opposition-
for Human Rights monitor- held suburbs in May.
ing group. Russia is a key A “de-escalation” agree-
ally of Syrian President ment brokered by Russia,
Bashar Assad. Iran, and Turkey in August
Rebels gave the govern- failed to bring any relief.
ment 24 hours to com- The government and reb-
ply, said Ammar Hassan, els eased up on their fight-
spokesman for the Islam ing but the government re-
Army, one of the factions fused to allow aid into east-
fighting inside the area. The ern Ghouta contravening
government did not sign the agreement.
the agreement, said oppo- Fighting erupted again in
sition adviser Omar Kouch. November, leading the
The eastern Ghouta area government to pound the
has seen more than two enclave with airstrikes and
months of violent fighting artillery fire without distin-
since rebels tried to ease guishing between civilian
a choking government and military targets. Reb-
blockade that has de- els have responded with
pleted food and medical waves of shelling on Da-
supplies. The U.N. reported mascus. At least 286 civil-
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses his ruling party members in Ankara, Turkey, in November that child ians have been killed in the
Friday, Jan. 26, 2018. Erdogan has vowed to extend a Turkish cross-border offensive in northern malnutrition in eastern Gh- crossfire in the last month
Syria eastward along the border up to the frontier with Iraq. outa was at the worst ever alone, according to figures
(Yasin Bulbul/Pool Photo via AP) recorded throughout the from the Observatory. The
By SUZAN FRASER ward, toward the border center of suffering” in the seven years of civil war. It agreement, the latest in a
PHILIP ISSA with Iraq. war-torn country. estimates there are around long line of short-lived truc-
Associated Press In Vienna, the Syrian op- The agreement, confirmed 400,000 people trapped es for Syria, was announced
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — position and Russia agreed to The Associated Press by under the government’s on the second and last day
Turkish President Recep to a cease-fire to halt the opposition official Ahmad siege. of a U.N.-mediated round
Tayyip Erdogan vowed on fighting over the besieged Ramadan, is contingent on Conditions deteriorated of peace talks in the Austri-
Friday to expand Ankara’s eastern Ghouta suburbs Russia compelling the gov- precipitously after pro-gov- an capital. Another round,
operation in a Kurdish en- of Damascus, an area the ernment to allow aid flow ernment forces choked off mediated by Russia, starts
clave in northern Syria east- U.N. has called the “epi- to the suburbs, according the last smuggling tunnels in Sochi on Monday.q

Rights groups condemn video purported to show Libya killings

By RAMI MUSA the killings shown in the fire with a machine gun, over the killings and said try’s east and loyal to the
Associated Press video would “constitute shooting each man in the the ICC has “documented government there. Hift-
BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — war crimes” while Amnesty head. at least 5 similar cases, in er is at odds with Libya’s
Leading international rights International said the video HRW and Amnesty said the 2017 alone, carried out or U.N.-backed government
groups this week con- shows “the horrifying con- shooter appears to be Liby- ordered by al-Warfalli.” based in the capital, Tripoli.
demned a video that re- sequences of the rampant an commander Mahmoud Along with Amnesty, the Libya descended into cha-
cently went viral on social impunity that exists in Lib- al-Warfalli, wanted by the U.N. mission in Libya de- os after the 2011 uprising
media purportedly showing ya.” International Criminal Court manded the immediate that toppled and killed dic-
a man shooting and killing In the video, the shooter, for war crimes since August handover of al-Warfalli. tator Moammar Gadhafi.
10 people at close range a man in military uniform, 2017. Al-Warfalli was known to The country is currently split
in the eastern Libyan city is seen standing before 10 The Associated Press could head an anti-terrorism unit between rival governments
of Benghazi, near the site blindfolded people in blue not independently confirm under Field Marshal Khalifa and parliaments based in
of this week’s massive twin jumpsuits who are on their the man’s identity. Hifter, the commander of the western and eastern re-
car bombing. knees, hands tied behind Earlier, the U.N. mission in Libya’s self-styled national gions, each backed by dif-
Human Rights Watch said their backs. He then opens Libya expressed its alarm army based in the coun- ferent militias and tribes.q