Tag: African migrants
African migrants beg for evacuation from Tunisia
Weeks after a violent crackdown on migrants in Tunisia that triggered a perilous rush to leave by smuggler boats for…
UN seeks $84m to support African migrants
The UN Migration Agency and partners are seeking $84 million dollars to provide humanitarian and development assistance to over one…
Morocco sues 65 migrants for crossing to Spain’s Melilla, after 23 deaths
About 2,000 migrants took part in the attempt, triggering violent skirmishes with Moroccan security forces and Spanish border guards at…
Deaths of African migrants at Spanish border: AU calls for probe [Video]
AU chief Moussa Faki Mahamat voiced his shock at the "violent and degrading" treatment of the African migrants trying to…
U.S. issues subtle warning to African migrants
The U.S. Department of State has delivered a subtle warning to would-be irregular African migrants, who may be drawing inspiration…
Outrageous: Libyan guards shoot migrants escaping missiles
The United Nations said on Thursday it had information that Libyan guards shot at refugees and migrants trying to flee…
130 African migrants missing after boats capsize off Djibouti
At least 130 African migrants are missing off the coast of Djibouti after two boats said to be overloaded, capsized…
400 African migrants storm Spanish border
Around 400 African migrants stormed the border between Morocco and the Spanish exclave of Ceuta on Wednesday, News Agency Europa…
Uganda considering Israel’s request to take African migrants
Uganda is considering a request from Israel to take in 500 migrants from Eritrea and Sudan, a minister said on…
Israel set to deport thousands of African migrants to Uganda
Israel is finalising a deal to deport thousands of African migrants to Uganda under a new scheme after agreements with…
Migrants set for Rwanda freed after relocation deal collapses
Israel released from detention a small group of African migrants who had been awaiting deportation after the collapse of an…
Red Cross accuses EU of increasing suffering of African migrants trying to cross the Sahara
Europe is increasing the suffering of African migrants trying to cross the Sahara, the Red Cross chief said, urging lawmakers…
MigApp: United Nations rolls out mobile app to empower African migrants
The UN agency on Thursday rolled out a mobile app called MigApp to empower migrants in East and Horn of…
Israel kicks off deportation of African migrants
Israel has started handing out notices to 20,000 male African migrants giving them two months to leave the country or…
Uganda denies deal with Israel to host African asylum seekers
The Ugandan Government on Monday denied reaching a deal with Israel to host thousands of African asylum seekers, a senior…
7 bodies of African migrants found in abandoned truck
Officials say they discovered seven bodies of African migrants who died from suffocation after being locked for two days in…
2,000 migrants rescued from Mediterranean in 2 days
The Italian Coast Guard on Friday, said it saved nearly 2,000 migrants in the Mediterranean from possible drowning within two…
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Breaking: 29 dead after boat carrying 600 African migrants capsize
A boat carrying 600 migrants has capsized off the Egyptian coast near Kafr al-Sheikh, the Egyptian military said Wednesday. Around…
Italy rescues 6,500 migrants from Mediterranean
The Italian coast guard has saved 6,500 migrants most believed to be Africans, off the Libyan coast in 40 separate…
Breaking: 700 African migrants drown in Libyan waters
Seven hundred people are feared to have drowned when a fishing boat smuggling migrants to Europe capsized off Libya, the…
Sicilian hotel offers refuge to surviving migrants from Nigeria, others
In the green hills of southeastern Sicily, the Don Bosco Oasis hotel is turning tourists away this season. Instead, it…
170 bodies of African migrants found from Libya shipwreck
Libyan rescuers have recovered the bodies of around 170 people after a boat carrying illegal migrants from sub-Saharan Africa sank…
African migrants protest in Israel
Nearly 200 African asylum seekers who entered Israel illegally demonstrated Tuesday in Jerusalem against being housed at a new open…
1000 African migrants blocked from crossing into Spain
Security forces averted an attempt by about 1,000 migrants to rush a towering, triple-layer border fence separating Morocco from the…
80 migrants consumed by Sahara Desert
The corpses of more than 80 migrants, most of them women and children who died of thirst, have been found…
UN Chief Bemaons Death Of 82 Africans In Boat Mishap
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Antonio Guterres, has expressed shock at the capsizing of a boat off the…
Italy slams ‘death merchants’ after 31 migrants drown
Italian Interior Minister Angelo Alfano called for human traffickers who shuttle migrants across the sea to Italy to be stopped…
Africans face hell in Greece
ATHENS (AFP) – Stuck in a small Athens flat all day to avoid being caught by police, earning another stint…
Pathetic story of migrants rushing to South Africa
Fewer than 5% of African migrants now want to reach Europe or America. They’re looking instead to neighbouring countries, or…