The flare-up in northern Ethiopia has raised fears of a civil war in Africa’s second-most populous nation.

At least 11 migrants from Africa died when their boat sank off Tunisia on Sunday, as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to the Italian island of Lampedusa, a Tunisian security official said.

This edition of The Debate is about the European Union’s new plan to share responsibility in taking in refugees.

These refugees have seen everything they had reduced to ashes overnight, and are now sleeping on roads, in fields and car parks after fleeing Europe’s biggest camp, where about 13,000 of them used to live in squalor until a few days ago.

Turkey accuses the European Union of turning a blind eye to human rights abuses perpetrated against refugees by Greece.

Turkey has strongly denounced remarks by top Greek and EU officials critical of Ankara’s handling of the refugee issue.

This episode takes a look at the Lhotshampa people, an ethnic Nepali minority of Bhutan who have lost their rights to be Bhutanese citizens and what they have been through. And we will be also reviewing the effect of the novel coronavirus on the Bangladesh's garment and textile industry .

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Greek authorities are acting like the Nazis as they resort to violence in blocking refugees on the Turkish border.

On February 28, Turkey said it would let refugees cross its borders into Europe.

"Let them go to other European countries," Erdogan said of the migrants.