Top UN officials slammed the international community on Tuesday for failing to fulfil commitments made a decade ago after a migrant shipwreck in the Mediterranean killed hundreds. “The world said never again,” Filippo Grandi and Amy Pope, the heads of the UN refugee and migration agencies, said in a joint statement marking the 10th anniversary of the Lampedusa tragedy. “We have not lived up to that commitment,” it added.

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