conflicts

Of Antonio Terrenzio
The fall of the radical chic
Source: Conflicts and strategies
The left also loses its last fiefdom. In Tuscany 10 municipalities move to the centre-right and there is now chaos within the ranks of the Democratic Party.
The left is at the end of the line and is on its way to definitive extinction.
The violent controversies that have been raised by Roberto Saviano in recent days, the anti-mafia guru who came to the defense of NGOs, they did not serve to undermine the prestige and progress of the League.
Offensive and hysterical attacks have characterized almost all elements of the progressive main stream.
From Mentana, who commented on the census in the Roma camps, alarmed about the danger of a vague return to "Nazi roundups", to the insane proposal of Orfini of the PD, to register the fascists.
The usual obsessive mantra, from a psychiatric case, characterized the entire national press with accusations leveled at the MoI of "inhumanity", "xenophobia", "fascism", for the policies to curb migrant trafficking and the closure of ports desired and implemented by Matteo Salvini. Read More

Of Alessandra Bocchi
Libya in the hands of traffickers now looks to Italy for a turning point
Source: The Lighthouse on the World
Migrations for Libya and from Libya are still a problem and, to pay for it, it is the same local population. “The Libyans want the immigration phenomenon to be stopped”, Jamal Adel tells us, a boy who is part of the Tebu tribe in Kufra in the south-east of the country.
“It would be a great thing if the new interior minister Matteo Salvini could stop the migration problem", another boy who requested anonymity for security reasons and who works for an organization that monitors conflicts in Sebha tells us, a town destroyed by human trafficking.
The boy then adds that “few newspapers are interested in what Libyans think about the migration phenomenon but, actually, we want this phenomenon to stop because it is seriously damaging our country".
Mac K. B. Simpsons, Ghanaian and migration expert who lives in Tripoli, he tells us: “It is important that this trafficking is stopped before the migrants even enter Libya”.
For many Libyans the problem is to be found above all in the NGOs operating in the Mediterranean: “Traffickers rely on NGOs, it has already been proven that they collaborate. They also feed the Libyan and Italian mafias", says Adel. Read More