A four day-old baby belonging to Mariam Ohene, a Nigerian, was among over 480 migrants rescued by humanitarian ships on Saturday in the central Mediterranean Sea. Also rescued with Ohene were her two year-old son named Benjamin and her Ghanaian husband Richard. They were all travelling on one of two rubber boats carrying over 200 […]
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At least 155 Nigerians have voluntarily returned from Libya barely two weeks after 171 returned home from the north African country. They were brought into Nigeria on Thursday aboard a chartered Nouvel Air aircraft with registration number TS-1NB. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the aircraft landed at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, […]
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A total of 255 migrants drowned while crossing the Mediterranean Sea since the beginning of 2017, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), has disclosed. The organization said on Tuesday in Geneva that arrival of migrants in Europe in the first 36 days of 2017 was much lower than that of last year. According to IOM, […]
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About 3,000 refugees have been saved by rescuers and more than 50 dead on boats near the coast of Libya, according to the Italian coastguard. Not less than 55 bodies were discovered on Wednesday on three overcrowded boats in the Mediterranean Sea, the coastguard said. 51 of the 55 were found in the hold of […]
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