[quote DelilahBucket]@BewareTheLibrarians yes huge groups of young men wandering around a village in the middle of nowhere late at night or travelling into a very small town at 10pm is worrying and it is clear they are here to to work. Don't condescend me. A large group of any sex/colour/ethnicity late at night is petrifying in a tiny village.
@Parker231 my point is these men are not running from war and compared to the countries you mention, what is the population to land mass vs the UK? Perhaps that will answer your question. Rwanda needs young men to work to build the country and economy, we do not.[/quote]
Delilah, why are you so convinced they are not fleeing war?
Syria - UN report from Last month
"Presenting the latest UN Human Rights Council-mandated report on the nearly 11-year-old conflict at a virtual press conference in Geneva, Paulo Pinheiro, Chair of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic, described the “devastating” impact on communities.
Half the country displaced
“Hundreds of thousands have been killed, more than half of the pre-war population – somewhere in the order of 22 million - have been displaced. More than 100,000 are missing or forcibly disappeared. Syria’s cities and infrastructure have been destroyed. Today the poverty rate in Syria is an unprecedented 90 percent; 14.6 million people in Syria depend on humanitarian aid.”
In Syria’s northwest, many Syrians forced from their homes “are still living in flimsy tents, stuck in snow, rain, mud,” Mr. Pinheiro continued, before insisting that “some actors seem to spend more energy on preventing aid to get to them, rather than facilitating it”."
Afghanistan - UN story from last month
Assistance to survive the winter
Since the beginning of the year the UN agency has helped more than 500,000 Afghans through assistance and relief programmes – including more than 130,000 people to survive the winter, and over 370 thousand who benefited from health centres, schools, water systems and other infrastructure.
Mr. Grandi also visited UNHCR-built sites, including a health centre in Kandahar and a girls’ school in Jalalabad.
“Some 3.4 million people are internally displaced due to conflict, the healthcare system is experiencing severe shortages amid the COVID crisis and a measles outbreak, key workers in vital services like schools and hospitals are without salaries, while the liquidity crisis, rising global food and energy costs are having a devastating effect,” he spelled out.
“Overall, 24 million people throughout Afghanistan require humanitarian support this year and we appeal to donors to fund a large humanitarian effort.”