Eritrea – the home country of many of the migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean – has been accused by the UN of human rights violations on a “scope and scale seldom witnessed elsewhere”   Many of the migrants currently attempting to cross the Mediterranean are from Eritrea Photo: Rowan Griffiths/PA …

Sky News One of the world’s most wanted people smugglers has been arrested in Sudan, the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has revealed. Mered Medhanie, known as “The General”, is believed to be the mastermind behind a major criminal organisation responsible for smuggling thousands of migrants from the Middle East …