Scott Mc Kiernan Presents zReportage.com Story of the Week #818:TUESDAY December 14, 2021: ‘CALAIS JUNGLE REBORN’ by Le Pictorium photographer Michael Bunel who has spent 10 years covering the migrant crisis in Europe.

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zReportage.com Story of the Week #818: TUESDAY December 14, 2021: ‘CALAIS JUNGLE REBORN’ by Le Pictorium photographer Michael Bunel who has spent 10 years covering the migrant crisis in Europe: The huge refugee camp in Calais known as the ‘Jungle’ became notorious in 2015, as 1 million people fled war and danger to come to Europe. Yet 5 years after it was demolished up to 2,000 migrants are still waiting in makeshift camps, at the centre of a political storm. Migrant boat crossings from France to the United Kingdom’s English coast are at record levels as both countries struggle to handle the flow of migrants in the area. The French authorities have regularly cleared migrant camps near Calais, offering migrants the opportunity to move to a shelter and file asylum requests in France. But many migrants prefer to continue their journeys to Britain. Since the beginning of the year, there have been 47,000 attempts to cross the Channel and 7,800 migrants had been saved from shipwrecks, according to French officials. On November 24 a boat capsized leaving 27 migrants dead. Everybody knows the risks. Even after News of the recent deaths has reached camp, many still plan to pay people smugglers huge amounts to cross the channel in hope of a better life. Welcome to ‘CALAIS JUNGLE REBORN’

Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press

Scott Mc Kiernan Presents zReportage.com Story of the Week #817 TUESDAY December 7, 2021:’Belarus Migration Game’ from ZUMA Press photographers Sergei Bobylev, Maxim Guchek, Oksana Manchuk, Ramil Nasibulin and Leonid Shcheglov of TASS: The situation at the Belarus-Poland border is unlike recent immigration crises.

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zReportage.com Story of the Week #817: TUESDAY December 7, 2021: ‘Belarus Migration Game’ from ZUMA Press photographers Sergei Bobylev, Maxim Guchek, Oksana Manchuk, Ramil Nasibulin and Leonid Shcheglov of TASS: The situation at the Belarus-Poland border is unlike recent immigration crises. The European Commission has accused Belarus of luring migrants to Minsk with the false promise of easy entry to the EU. Belarus’s leader Lukashenko denies orchestrating the problem. Migrants have described how Belarusian authorities seized their phones and pushed them towards the border fence. International law states that anyone seeking protection must be given access to the asylum process. Many people in Belarus and Poland left Iraq and Syria seeking economic opportunity – they would not qualify for asylum and human rights groups have accused the EU of ignoring what is happening on the ground. The main flash point of the crisis was defused last month after the Belarusian authorities moved thousands of migrants from a sprawling encampment near the Polish border, yet thousands remain stranded under freezing temperatures, and at least 12 people have died. The migrant crisis in Belarus is a window into the failure of today’s global order to solve a growing problem. Welcome to ‘Belarus Migration Game’

Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press

ZUMA’s Liau Chung Ren featured on WSJ.com

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December 3, 2021, HONG KONG, CHINA: In the commercial centre in Central, woman walk past under large outdoor display of HK Government’s propaganda poster promoting LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ELECTION 2021. Hong Kong will be observing first LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ELECTION 2021 under tight HK NATIONAL SECURITY LAW, with majority of former pro-democracy lawmakers being disqualified to run as candidate, while many opposition leaders are currently detained in jail under political prosecution.

Scott Mc Kiernan, Founder & Editor-in-Chief, ZUMA Press