Tag: Migrants
Italy shuts ports against migrants
Italy on Saturday closed its ports to hundreds of migrants rescued off Libya who face a chilly Christmas at sea…
15 migrants die in boat off Libya
As many as 15 migrants have died in a boat off the Libyan coast, an Egyptian survivor told Reuters on…
US Judge blocks Trump’s order denying asylum to migrants
A US federal judge has blocked an order issued by President Trump to deny the possibility of asylum to migrants…
315 illegal migrants intercepted at Mediterranean sea
The Libyan Coast Guard picked up a total of 315 migrants in the Mediterranean Sea on Wednesday who were trying…
Trump back-pedals on migrants: tells troops to arrest, not shoot
President Donald Trump has back-pedalled from his suggestion a day earlier that American troops sent to the U.S. border with…
North Africa migrant ‘camps’ not on EU agenda – Juncker
European Commission President, Jean-Claude Juncker, said on Friday a suggestion that the EU might try to set up migrant camps…
‘We’re not letting you in’
U.S. President Donald Trump has asked the over 7,000 Central-American refugees now on the march through Mexico towards the southern…
Nigerian Govt urged to secure release of citizens detained in Libya
A Non-Governmental Organisation, Migration Enlightenment Project Nigeria (MEPN), has called on the Federal Government to demand for the list and…
Buhari to migrants: Stay at home, Nigeria will be better
President Muhammadu Buhari has appealed to Nigerians taking the risky desert-Mediterranean route to Europe to stay at home as his…
‘Stop arbitrary expulsion of West African migrants’
The UN Special Rapporteur on Migration, Mr Felipe Morales, has called on Algeria to halt the collective expulsion of thousands…
9 dead, 25 missing as migrant boat sinks
Nine people died after a boat filled with migrants sank off the western coast of Turkey and another 25 were…
Australia plans to settle new migrants outside big cities
Australia plans to restrict some new migrants from living in its largest cities: Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, for “at least…
Migrants: French minister likens Italy’s Salvini to Pontius Pilate
French European Affairs Minister Nathalie Loiseau on Wednesday said Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini was behaving “like Pontius Pilate”, over…
FG evacuates 165 stranded Nigerian migrants from Libya
The Charge D’ Affairs, Nigeria Mission to Libya, Mr Alex Kefas, says 165 stranded Nigerian irregular migrants were on Thursday…
Libya evacuates migrants trapped by Tripoli clashes
Hundreds of migrants have been relocated from government-run detention centres in Libya’s capital, Tripoli, after getting trapped by clashes between…
Migrants rejected by Italy were tortured, raped – UN
African migrants rejected by Italy in a standoff with the European Union on Aug. 15, said they had been held…
Italy threaten not to return 177 migrants to Libya
Italy threaten not to return to Libya 177 migrants at the centre of a diplomatic stand-off if the European Union…
Spain rescues 123 migrants
Spain’s maritime rescue service says it has saved 123 migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea from North Africa. The…
1,500 migrants died in Mediterranean – UN
The UN says for the fifth straight year, 1,500 migrants perished in the Mediterranean, with the route between Libya and…
EU offers to shoulder cost of taking in migrants
The European Commission offered on Tuesday to shoulder the cost of taking in migrants from boats in the Mediterranean, seeking…
Libya stops Nigerians, other migrants from crossing to Europe
Libyan coastguard has intercepted 156 migrants, including Nigerians, in two separate incidents as they tried to reach Europe by sea,…
Migrants’ standoff: UNHCR welcomes EU’s deal
The UN High Commissioner for Refugee (UNHCR), Filippo Grandi, has given a cautious welcome to the decision by several EU…
Libyan Coastguard intercepts 156 migrants
Libya’s Navy said on Thursday that the North African Nation’s Coastguard intercepted 156 migrants on a rubber boat.
156 migrants intercepted in Libya
Libya’s Navy said on Thursday that the North African Nation’s Coastguard intercepted 156 migrants on a rubber boat.
Shipwreck victims taken to Spain instead of Italy
A Spanish aid group said on Wednesday that it would not take a survivor and two bodies it recovered from…
8 migrants found dead in lorry container
Authorities on Monday say eight migrants including six children were found dead, after suffocating from petrol fumes while packed into…
Italy Minister blocks migrants on ship in Govt. tug-of-war
Dozens of migrants rescued at sea and brought to an Italian Port on Thursday were blocked on ship in Government…
60,000 migrants died since 2000 – UN
No fewer than 60,000 migrants have perished in desperate attempts to escape from the difficulties in their countries and have…
Pope Francis reacts to migrants suffering
Pope Francis on Friday celebrated a special Mass for migrants and refugees in which he denounced the “sterile hypocricy” of…
Over 1,000 migrants drowned in Mediterranean – IOM
More than 200 migrants have drowned in the Mediterranean from January to June, bringing the overall death toll so far…