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…