I co-hosted a podcast ‘Untold Stories’ with Egyptian journalist Osama Gaweesh about the tragic deaths of 27 people who drowned at the end of November trying to cross the English Channel, the sea which separates England from France. We were joined by Sally Hough, who runs a weekly drop-in for refugees, and Green Party Councillor Georgina Treloar.

In 2011 residents of the fishing town of Idku close to Egypt’s northern city of Alexandria gathered to oppose British Petroleum’s (BP) plans to pump gas onshore where they would process it for onwards shipment. There were many parts of the project which angered activists including the proposition that the gas plant would be built on Idku’s sandy strip of beach.

At 1.38am on Wednesday 14 June Rania Ibrahim streamed a live video on her Facebook wall from inside her home, a flat on the 23rd floor of Grenfell Tower where she lived with her husband and two young children. The building is on fire, she says, holding the phone out of the window to show viewers that the blaze had reached the 20th floor and is making its way in her direction.