Tag: migrant

Spanish authorities rescued over 500 migrants at the weekend from more than a dozen boats making the Mediterranean crossing to Europe. Following...

A boat carrying two dozen migrants from West Africa was rescued off the coast of northern Brazil, officials from the state of...

The Israeli government has abandoned a plan to forcibly deport African migrants who entered the country illegally after failing to find a...

The Libyan coastguard recovered bodies of 11 migrants who died off Libya's western shore during an attempted crossing to Italy, a spokesman...

African migrants and asylum seekers in Yemen are subject to physical and sexual abuse in detention, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW)...

Italy has broken up a criminal ring smuggling migrants from Tunisia to Sicily on speedboats less than a year after a similar...

Israel released a small group of African migrants awaiting deportation following the collapse of an international deal to send them to Rwanda....

Italian authorities seized a charity's ship on suspicion it helped illegal immigration by picking up migrants in the Mediterranean instead of letting...

A 22-year-old Eritrean man died of tuberculosis exacerbated by severe malnutrition after being rescued at sea and brought to Italy, showing how...

A truck packed with African migrants crashed near the Libyan town Bani Walid, leaving at least 19 dead and nearly 80 injured,...

Libya's UN-backed government agreed with Italy to establish a joint operations room to tackle migrant smugglers and traffickers as part of efforts...

The United Nations migration agency is stepping up the rate at which it flies migrants home from Libya, aiming to evacuate up...

Spanish rescue services pulled three drowned men from the Strait of Gibraltar after rescuing a man from a half-sunken, rickety boat and...

Following weeks of conflict in western Libya United Nations agencies have been working around the clock to meet the urgent needs of...

Thousands of migrants displaced by fighting on Libya's north-western coast are in urgent need of medical help, the head of a detention...

At least five civilians were killed and 12 others wounded in fighting in the Libyan migrant smuggling hub of Sabratha, the United...

The Tunisian navy rescued 98 Tunisians fleeing to Europe when their boat started sinking off Kerkenah, the national guard said. Separately, the...

The European Union is determined to keep preventing migrants setting off from the coast of Libya, interior ministers said, despite criticism from...

Libyan security forces found the bodies of 16 migrants in the desert near the country's border with Egypt. The bodies were found about...

Getting Europe's migrant crisis under control will be the main focus of a summit of Europe's 'big four' continental powers hosted by...

An armed group is stopping migrant boats from setting off across the Mediterranean from a city west of Tripoli that has been...

Over 300 migrants in seven dinghies were rescued off Spain's southern coast after attempting to cross the sea from Morocco, the Spanish...

Two more aid groups suspended migrant rescues in the Mediterranean joining Doctors Without Borders because they felt threatened by the Libyan coastguard....

The Italian coastguard seized a migrant rescue boat operated by a German aid groups suspected of aiding illegal immigration from Libya, a...

Five aid groups operating migrant rescue ships in the Mediterranean refuse to sign up to the Italian government's code of conduct, the...

Libya's coastguard rescued an estimated 278 migrants including women and children offshore two different towns west of Tripoli, a spokesman said. The...

The Italian government, looking to stem the flow of migrants to the country, has drawn up a draft code of conduct for...

On Tuesday (July 4) this week the European Union's EUNavFor Med launched the first European observatory on migrant smuggling and human trafficking...

Italy appealed to the European Union for help in taking in African migrants, even raising the possibility of closing its ports to...

When Libya's coastguard received the first of a long-awaited batch of patrol boats from Italy last month, two of the four had...

Amid growing concern for the safety of migrants, particularly in Africa, as they undertake extreme risks in hopes of a better future...

Seven African migrants died, apparently from suffocation, after being locked for days in a refrigerated truck abandoned by people smugglers on the...

More than 40 West African migrants died in the Sahara desert after their truck broke down in arid northern Niger, the Red...

Rescuers pulled 2,121 migrants to safety from boats in the Mediterranean late at the weekend and recovered a dead body, the Italian...

Italy arrested a Libyan suspected of involvement in the killing of a migrant, shot when he refused to take off his baseball...

Morocco summoned Algeria's ambassador to express concern after 54 Syrians attempted to "illegally enter" the country from Algeria, the ministry of foreign...

The European Union is offering simplified visa procedures and increased economic aid to Tunisia and Egypt in exchange for smoother deportations of...

The bodies of 16 migrants have washed up at the western Libyan city of Zuwara, a Red Crescent spokesman said on Sunday. Al-Khamis...

Slumped on a bench in a village in south-east Senegal - lifeless but for the occasional bleating of goats and splutter of...

A Sudanese migrant who walked 50 km (31 miles) from France to Britain through the Channel Tunnel as trains rushed past, only...

A Moroccan man suffocated while being smuggled to Spain in a suitcase stowed in the boot of a car, the Spanish government...