{"id":5530,"date":"2022-09-30T00:03:01","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T00:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/?p=5530"},"modified":"2022-09-30T00:03:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T00:03:01","slug":"refugees-flee-sub-saharan-by-way-of-the-mediterranean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2022\/09\/30\/refugees-flee-sub-saharan-by-way-of-the-mediterranean\/","title":{"rendered":"Refugees Flee Sub &#8211; Saharan by way of the Mediterranean"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africanews.com\/2021\/12\/24\/mediterranean-sea-hundreds-of-migrants-rescued-in-5-operations\/\">https:\/\/www.africanews.com\/2021\/12\/24\/mediterranean-sea-hundreds-of-migrants-rescued-in-5-operations\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Thursday, September 15th, over 450 refugees fleeing their homes in sub-Saharan African countries in overloaded rubber dinghies were rescued by rescue crews from France based Non Governmental Organization Doctors Without Borders. The refugees are now onboard one of the NGO\u2019s ships, GeoBarents, awaiting decisions from southern European countries on a port of destination where they can dock.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the past decades, countries in sub-Saharan Africa have not held an overwhelming amount of power compared to their counterparts in other areas of the world, and their relatively unstable economies, societies, and political environments coupled with their divisive tendencies within the continent have contributed to a hostile situation for citizens. These weaknesses have been magnified by the strain of the COVID 19 pandemic and recent conflict between countries in Europe and Asia, and little effort has been made to subdue rising tension in sub-Saharan African countries.Because of all these issues, citizens have been forced to flee. The nations that these refugees have been seeking out, in this case southern European nations, are seemingly preoccupied by other foriegn affairs and not accepting refugees into their borders. This situation is reflective of the current trends and predictive of the future, as infighting and instability will continue to dominate many sub-Saharan African countries for the foreseeable future in my opinion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The role of NGOs is demonstrated in the plight of the refugees currently fleeing their native countries. Other states might not lend a hand as a whole, but NGOs do not operate within the jurisdiction of these states and can provide assistance without government influence. Doctors Without Borders is classified as an International NGO and serves as an important global actor by doing philanthropic work that established states do not, in this case rescuing refugees who would have otherwise perished in the Mediterranean and assisting them in their efforts to find safe haven in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.africanews.com\/2021\/12\/24\/mediterranean-sea-hundreds-of-migrants-rescued-in-5-operations\/ On Thursday, September 15th, over 450 refugees fleeing their homes in sub-Saharan African countries in overloaded rubber dinghies were rescued by rescue crews from France based Non Governmental Organization Doctors Without Borders. The refugees are now onboard one of the NGO\u2019s ships, GeoBarents, awaiting decisions from southern European countries on a port of destination where they can dock.&nbsp; In&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2022\/09\/30\/refugees-flee-sub-saharan-by-way-of-the-mediterranean\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":236,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5531,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5530\/revisions\/5531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}