migrants

The death toll from a migrant shipwreck off the Tunisian coast has risen to 17,according to reports. Most of the deceased migrants were Syrians who were making the precarious Mediterranean crossing to reach Italy. 12 bodies were…

Migrants in Libyan capital, Tripoli, demand immediate deportation to a safe location due to r living conditions in detention centres and ill-treatment by Libyan authorities. Dozens of migrants protested on Saturday outside the United…

At least 21 migrants were found dead after the boat carrying them sank off the coast of Tunisia, This was disclosed by a security official who said this was the second such disaster in two days in the region. The coastguard recovered the…

At least seven migrants, one of them pregnant, drowned after a boat carrying them capsized five miles off the Italian island of Lampedusa early on Wednesday, officials said. About 10 other people were missing, Luigi Patronaggio, the chief…

Reports have surfaced indicating that more than 250 migrants, the vast majority coming from Bangladesh, are taken to the port of Ben Guerdane, in southern Tunisia, after their boat suffered damage while they were trying to reach Europe from…

More than 40 African migrants were rescued after their boat ran aground on the rocky coast of Lanzarote in Spain's Canary Islands late on Thursday, emergency services said, while over 100 people on two more boats made it safely to other…

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged Central American governments to do more to help contain illegal immigration and voiced concerns about the health of local democracy and human rights during a visit to the region on Tuesday.…

A hotel in the Canary Islands, northwestern Africa has opened its doors to migrants seeking a new life. When hotel director Calvin Lucock and restaurant owner Unn Tove Saetran said goodbye to one of the last groups of migrants staying in…

At least eight people, including guards have died and more than 170 injured after a fire ripped through an immigration holding facility in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, the United Nations migration agency said. The total death toll from the…

Hundred  migrants were rescued off the west coast of Libya. The Libyan coastguard rescued the mostly African migrants, the majority being from Cameroon, Sudan and Mali, as they attempted perilous sea crossings to Italy. The migrants were…