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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…