Tag: migrant
UN says 15 dead in attempted migrant voyage from Libya
The UN refugee agency said it had recovered the bodies of 15 migrants and 177 survivors from two coastguard boats returning to Libya people...
At least 39 die as two migrant boats sink off Tunisia
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At least 39 migrants died when two boats sank off Tunisia on Tuesday as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to the Italian island...
A group of villagers, a migrant boat and a deadly end...
Seven neighbours from a village in western Senegal boarded a fishing boat crammed with migrants just after midnight on 26 October. Their destination: Europe,...
ISS: Focus on migrant returns threatens AU–EU negotiations
Last month the European Commission unveiled its New Pact on Migration and Asylum (New Pact). The pact’s goals of rebuilding trust and developing workable...
Migrant evacuation flights resume from Libya, UN agency says
United Nations evacuation flights for migrants stuck in Libya have resumed after being suspended because of the global pandemic, the UN refugee agency said...
Ten migrant bodies washed up on Djibouti coast
The bodies of ten migrants washed up on the coast of Djibouti on the Horn of Africa, the UN migration agency said on Thursday.
The...
Tunisia migrant ship death toll rises
Tunisia recovered more bodies from a ship that sank off the coast on Sunday carrying African migrants, bringing the death toll to 17, a...
Canary Islands sees biggest migrant surge since 2006
More than 1 000 migrants reached the Canary Islands in the past 48 hours, the Red Cross said on Saturday, the largest number since...
At least 11 die as migrant boat sinks off Tunisia
At least 11 migrants from Africa died when their boat sank off Tunisia on Sunday, as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to the...
ISS: Migrant disaster in Libya stoked by EU strategy
Libya is labelled a migration ‘black hole’ where refugees and migrants face ‘unacceptable and extreme’ forms of violence. Migrants – mainly from East and West Africa...
At least 20 die as migrant boat sinks off Tunisia
At least 20 African migrants died when a boat carrying more than 50 people sank off Tunisia, an official said on Tuesday.
The bodies were...
Malta rescues migrants
A group of 112 North African migrants was rescued from a sinking dinghy and landed in Malta supervised by troops in protective clothing against...
Migrant boat sinks off Tunisia, two dead
A boat carrying migrants sank off Tunisia drowning at least two with nine rescued and 14 missing, a coastguard official said.
The boat sank...
Italy arrests three on suspicion of torture
Italian prosecutors ordered the arrest of three people suspected of torturing migrants in a Libyan detention centre.
The men, a 22-year-old Guinean and two...
Shipwreck off Libya claims migrant lives
At least 40 people are feared dead or missing after a shipwreck of a boat carrying migrants off Libya, while about 60 people may...
Hundred plus die in Mediterranean shipwreck
About 115 people are missing feared drowned and another 134 were rescued by Libyan coast guards and local fishermen after a wooden boat carrying...
Libyan guards reportedly shoot at fleeing migrants
The United Nations said it had information Libyan guards shot at refugees and migrants fleeing air strikes that killed at least 53 people, including...
Migrant boat missing off Spain
Spanish rescue services are searching for at least 20 people missing from a migrant boat found adrift in the Mediterranean after a passenger ferry...
Migrant deaths at sea off Spain triple
At least 631 African migrants died trying to reach Spain so far this year, almost three times more than in 2017 and...
Migrants rebuild Casablanca camp
After two sleepless days and nights begging on the streets of Casablanca, Guinea teenager Ismail could afford to rebuild his home in...
Migrant boat sinks off Turkey
Four people died when a migrant boat sank off the west coast of Turkey, the Turkish interior ministry said, adding 30 migrants...
Migrant sea deaths rise, in part due to Italian ports not...
Italy closing its ports to rescued migrants is driving up deaths at sea, an Italian think tank said, using calculations based on...
Bodies wash up on beach
The bodies of 21 people thought to be migrants trying to reach Spain washed up on the shores of the Mediterranean, the...
Conditions of detained migrants in Libya worsening – UNHCR
The UN refugee agency said it was gravely concerned about deterioration in conditions for migrants in Libyan detention centres tha led to...
Life and death off the Libyan shoreline
The wreck of the raft was a dot on the sea but as our rescue boat approached we saw a woman make...
Major migrant rescue in Mediterranean
Almost 400 migrants were rescued in the Mediterranean at the weekend as they attempted to cross from Morocco to Spain, Spanish rescue...
Migrant rescue vessel back at sea after international dispute
The migrant rescue ship Aquarius, at the centre of a dispute between Italy and Malta in June after both refused to accept...
Migrant return to Libya by Italian boat could be illegal
A rescue operation in which an Italian towboat rescued more than 100 migrants and returned them to Libya may be in breach...
Tunisia allows boat migrants port access
Tunisia agreed to accept a boat carrying around 40 African migrants stranded for two weeks off the country's coast after first allowing...
Mediterranean migrant deaths hit 1 500
For the fifth straight year, at least 1,500 migrants perished in the Mediterranean, with the route between Libya and Italy the deadliest,...
Libya rejects EU migrant centres plan
Libya rejects a European Union's plan to establish migrant centres in the north African country to stop asylum seekers arriving in western...
Migrant rescue boat heads for Spain as row simmers
An ocean rescue charity is taking a lone survivor and the bodies of two dead migrants to Spain, after clashing with Italy...
Migrant boat sinks off Cyprus
Nineteen people died when a boat carrying about 150 migrants sank off the coast of northern Cyprus and rescuers were searching for...
UN agrees to first ever global compact on migration
For the first time ever, UN member states agreed to an all-encompassing global compact to better manage international migration, address its challenges,...
Italian minister blocks migrants on ship
Dozens of migrants rescued at sea and brought to an Italian port cannot disembark, the country's far-right interior minister said, reversing a...
Italy stops migrant vessel
Italy refused to allow a commercial vessel flying an Italian flag to bring ashore rescued migrants, apparently keeping up a hard-line policy...
Malta stops migrant spotter aircraft flight
Malta stopped a small aircraft used to search for migrant boats in the Mediterranean from operating out of the country, the German...
Mediterranean migrant centres will be no quick fix
Planned new centres around the Mediterranean to handle migrants will be no silver bullet solution to the European Union's immigration challenge, said...
Mediterranean migrant deaths top the thousand mark
More than 1,000 people drowned in the Mediterranean this year sailing from Libya to Europe, with a rush in the past few...
Italy and Malta in fresh migrant stand-off
A rescue boat saved 59 migrants at sea off Libya and Italy immediately said it would not welcome them, setting up a...
Malta to take migrant ship
Malta will allow the rescue ship Lifeline dock after Italy refused it entry, ending the vessel's near-week-long wait in the Mediterranean with...
Italy proposes African migrant centres
Italy called for migrant centres to be set up in Africa to stop a tide of asylum-seekers fleeing toward western Europe, as...
Libyan coastguard in major migrant rescue
Libyan coastguards picked up 948 African migrants on inflatable boats in several operations and recovered 10 bodies officials and a witness at...
More than 900 migrants rescued by Spain
Spain's coast guard rescued 933 migrants and found four dead bodies in the Mediterranean at the weekend as the country prepared for...
Italy demands recall of migrant rescue ships
Italy demanded the Netherlands recall two Dutch-flagged migrant rescue ships after one of the non-governmental organisations operating them called Rome's interior minister...
Migrant rescue ship ports in Spain
The Aquarius charity-run rescue ship arrived in the Spanish port of Valencia on Sunday, a week after Italy refused to let it...
Italy refuses migrant boat port access
Italy will refuse to let a humanitarian ship carrying more than 600 migrants dock at its ports and asked the island of...
Tunisian interior minister fired after migrant boat disaster
Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed fired Interior Minister Lotfi Brahem, a government statement said, after one of the worst migrant boat accidents...
Tunisian migrant boat sinking death toll rises
The death toll from a ship packed with migrants that sank off the Tunisian coast last weekend rose to 60, the United...
Migrant boat sinks off Tunisia
At least 48 migrants were killed when their boat sank off Tunisia's coast and 67 others were rescued by the coast guard,...
