Tag: migrants
Home country conflict big contributor to migrant deaths – IOM
One in three migrant deaths can be attributed to people fleeing conflict, an International Organisation for Migration (IOM) report has it, adding two of...
ISS: Migrants at the mercy of Morocco’s iron fist
On 24 June, around 2 000 sub-Saharan African migrants, who had gathered the night before in north-eastern Morocco, set off at dawn to cross...
Tunisia navy rescues 487 migrants from overloaded boat
The Tunisian navy rescued 487 migrants on Friday from an overloaded boat that ran into difficulty in rough seas in the Mediterranean as they...
Migrant boat with ten dead bodies arrives in Sicily
A boat carrying the bodies of ten migrants found dead at sea arrived in Sicily on Friday, along with dozens of people it rescued...
More than 600 migrants reach Italy by sea from north Africa
More than 600 migrants, many of them Egyptians, arrived in southern Italy over the past 24 hours, officials said on Sunday, defying stormy winter...
Don’t send migrants back to unsafe countries, pope says, citing Libya
Pope Francis on Sunday urged countries not to send migrants back to insecure countries such as Libya, where he said many suffer violent and...
“Invisible shipwrecks” another contributor to migrant deaths
A sharp increase in deaths and disappearances of migrants heading to Spain’s Canary Islands off the West African coast is a cause for “extreme...
Migrants deported from UAE face conflict or exile
Until months ago, Cameroonian migrant Wilfred Christopher had a home and stable job as a pastry chef in Abu Dhabi.
Now, the 26-year-old fears for...
Migrant arrivals to Spain’s Canary Islands double from last year
Spain’s sea rescue service on Wednesday rescued around 100 migrants trying to reach the Canary Islands in rickety boats from north or west Africa...
Dozens of migrants lost at sea off Mauritanian coast
Up to 47 people including three minors are missing and suspected to have died after their boat encountered engine trouble on the passage from...
About 40 migrants feared dead after boat capsizes off Western Sahara
About 40 migrants were feared dead after a boat carrying about 50 people travelling from Western Sahara to Spain's Canary Islands capsized, a Spanish...
At least 57 migrants die in shipwreck off Libyan coast –...
At least 57 people drowned on Monday after a boat capsized off the Libyan coast near Khums, the latest tragedy in the Mediterranean where...
Over 200 migrants scale fence into Spain’s Melilla enclave
More than 200 migrants crossed into Spain’s North African enclave of Melilla early on Thursday, climbing the high fence that separates it from Morocco,...
At least 17 migrants drown off Tunisia in shipwreck – Red...
At least 17 Bengali migrants drowned in a shipwreck off Tunisia as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Italy from Libya, while more...
Nearly 600 rescued migrants disembark from charity boat in Italy
Hundreds of migrants rescued in the central Mediterranean disembarked on Friday in the southern Italian town of Augusta, in Sicily, after Rome-based maritime authorities...
At least 21 migrants die after boat sinks off Tunisia
At least 21 migrants died after the boat carrying them sank off the coast of Tunisia, a security official said, the second such disaster...
Seven migrants drown as boat capsizes off Italy’s Lampedusa
At least seven migrants, one of them pregnant, drowned after a boat carrying them capsized five miles off the Italian island of Lampedusa early...
Dozens of migrants rescued off Spain’s Gran Canaria
Spain's coast guard rescued 45 migrants off the coast of Gran Canaria on Sunday including 24 women and eight children.
The migrants, from sub-Saharan Africa,...
Bodies wash up on Yemen coast after reports of migrant boat...
A number of bodies washed up at Ras al-Arah on Yemen's Red Sea coast on Monday from a suspected migrant boat that sank offshore,...
Blame game for Med migrant deaths
The EU is partly to blame for deaths of migrants taking boats across the Mediterranean due to unanswered distress calls, obstruction of humanitarian rescue...
ISS: A dangerous road home for Horn of Africa migrants
COVID-19 is a key factor forcing migrants travelling to Saudi Arabia to make risky journeys home from Yemen.
Migrants are returning for three main reasons:...
Migrants push for Spain’s Ceuta again after border security tightened
Hundreds of migrants tried to force their way past tightened security into Ceuta on Wednesday, as Spain pressed on with the expulsion of thousands...
At least 17 migrants drown in shipwreck off Tunis
At least 17 African migrants drowned in a shipwreck off Tunis as they tried to cross the Mediterranean from Libya to Italy, the Tunisian...
Dozens of migrants land in Malta after sea rescue
A group of around 70 migrants, all men, landed in Malta on Tuesday after they were rescued in the Mediterranean.
The Home Affairs Ministry confirmed...
More than 1 400 migrants arrive on Italy’s Lampedusa
Fifteen boats packed with hundreds of migrants landed on the southern Italian island of Lampedusa on Sunday, and officials said they were expecting numbers...
At least 34 migrants dead as boat capsizes off Djibouti, IOM...
At least 34 people drowned when a boat carrying migrants from Yemen capsized off the coast of Djibouti, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM)...
At least four migrants found dead on boat off Canary Islands
At least four people were found dead on a migrant boat off the Canary Island of El Hierro on Sunday, the Spanish Red Cross...
Spanish police arrest gang accused of trafficking migrants across Mediterranean
Eight members of a gang suspected of trafficking migrants from Spain’s North African enclave of Melilla to the Spanish mainland have been arrested, police...
Nigeria repatriates hundreds of migrants from Saudi Arabia
Nigeria evacuated hundreds of its citizens from Saudi Arabia on Thursday after they overstayed their visas and were left stranded, two Reuters witnesses said.
The...
Number of Tunisian migrants landing in Italy rose fivefold in 2020
The number of Tunisian migrants landing on Italian shores soared fivefold to 13 000 in 2020, a rights group said on Tuesday, citing economic...
Migrants in Libya face danger on shore and peril at sea
When Abdullah boarded an inflatable boat crammed with fellow migrants in February he thought he would finally reach Europe after braving a Sahara crossing...
Twenty migrants drown in Libya shipwreck, fourth accident this week
Twenty African migrants are believed to have drowned off the coast of Libya when their boat sank as they tried to cross the Mediterranean...
At least 74 migrants dead in shipwreck off Libya coast, IOM...
At least 74 migrants died in a shipwreck off the coast of Libya on Thursday, the United Nations’ migration agency said, with 47 survivors...
At least 140 Europe-bound migrants drown off Senegal coast: UN
At least 140 Europe-bound migrants drowned off the coast of Senegal when their boat caught fire and capsized, marking the deadliest shipwreck recorded this...
Senegal shipwreck claims 140 lives
In the deadliest shipwreck recorded to date this year, at least 140 people drowned after a vessel carrying about 200 migrants sank off Senegal,...
Migrants die after being thrown off boat
Twelve migrants died and others are missing after they were thrown off a boat by smugglers off Djibouti in the Horn of Africa, the...
World becoming less tolerant of migrants – Gallup poll
The world is becoming less tolerant of migrants, according to a poll released on Wednesday as Europe prepared to unveil a new asylum plan...
More migrants drown off Libya
Two dozen migrants and refugees on a rubber dinghy trying to cross from Libya to Europe are believed drowned after their boat capsized, the...
Abandoned migrants rescued in Sahara
More than 80 African migrants were rescued in the Sahara desert after they were robbed and left to die by people they paid to...
Call for more Mediterranean search and rescue capability
UN agencies want search and rescue stepped up in the central Mediterranean in the wake of a shipwreck that claimed the lives of 45...
ISS: Movement should be safe for migrants; not profitable for smugglers
As legal avenues for migration have shrunk due to COVID-19 related restrictions, movement has increasingly been facilitated by smugglers. Governments need to ensure their...
Half of violence against African migrants is by law enforcers, UN...
Nearly half of all the violence visited on African migrants during their journey to the Mediterranean coast is perpetrated by law enforcers, the United...
Three migrants shot dead in Libya after failed crossing to Europe
Libyan authorities shot dead three Sudanese migrants trying to flee detention late on Monday, as they disembarked from a failed attempt to cross the...
New wave of boat migrants overwhelms southern Italian island
About 100 migrants who crossed the Mediterranean in small boats landed on the southern island of Lampedusa during the night, the latest in a...
ISS: How Africa can reduce COVID-19’s impact on displaced persons
Africa’s 25.2 million refugees, asylum seekers and internally displaced persons are some of the most vulnerable groups to COVID-19. They are hosted in areas...
Coronavirus limits migrant options in Libya
After several failed crossings from Libya to Italy and a long spell in detention, Nigerian migrant Olu had pinned hopes on being evacuated from...
Malta refuses migrant ship permission to port
Malta plans to keep 57 rescued migrants aboard a private ship anchored outside territorial waters until the European Union finds a way to rehouse...
Migrants missing or dead in Libya
At least five migrants died and seven were missing when the coast guard returned 49 to Tripoli as fighting raged, the UN migration agency...
Another migrant crisis could be brewing in Libya
Following the migrant crisis which engulfed Southern Europe and the Mediterranean region in 2014-15, tensions between states affected and migrants have remained high. In...
Italy orders coronavirus tests on boat migrants
Italy ordered migrants on a rescue ship off its coast quarantined on another vessel to test for the coronavirus instead of allowing disembarkation.
The Alan...
