Last week Mahmoud Fathallah arrived with his family and another 10 people in Kirkuk, a city in northern Iraq. The 34 year-old is originally from Hawija, a mostly Sunni Muslim-populated town about 50 kilometres south of Kirkuk, and he and the other people travelled there guided by people smugglers. Continue →
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Stian Overdahl on asylum seekers in Germany, & the crisis on Ohlauer Straße
Over the past nine days* Kreuzberg, Berlin has been witness to a major police operation, after a group of roughly 40 asylum seekers refused to leave an abandoned school that was being used as a refugee centre. Continue →