Tag: migrants
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...
Question for Public Works and Infrastructure Minister uses defenceWeb information
Public Works and Infrastructure Minister Patricia de Lille’s R37 million Beit Bridge fence upgrade as part of government efforts to prevent the spread of...
