Category: Migrant Crisis

As a journalist, sometimes you find a story and sometimes one comes to you. The latter was what I experienced in August 2018, when I was first contacted through Facebook by a refugee in Libya. He was among a group of five hundred men, women and children who had been abandoned in a detention centre in a war zone, without food, water, or protection. Reading this, Europeans might already want to switch off. North Africa feels far away to us. …