Around 300 migrants were rescued off the coast of Spain on Wednesday and Thursday, Spain’s maritime rescue service said. More than half of them were found off the Costa Blanca on Spain’s southeastern coast, with 10 people rescued just before dawn, among them eight men, a woman and a child. Later in the morning, rescuers […]
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No fewer than 14 migrants, identified as Ethiopians, had been found dead in Eastern Tanzania’s region of Morogoro, Police said on Monday. Morogoro Regional Police Commander Wilbroad Mutafungwa said that the aliens were found dead in Mindu area, near Morogoro municipality, on the Tanzania-Zambia highway. He said that there were 26 illegal migrants on board […]
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Four people have been reported dead and 30 others missing, after a boat carrying migrants sank off the Western coast of Turkey late on Tuesday. Reuters reports. The Turkish interior ministry made this known on Wednesday and also reveled the number of people still to be accounted for. The ministry also said in it’s statements […]
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A total of 675 migrants, including children and babies, were rescued off the Spanish coast over the weekend, a government spokesman told AFP. On Saturday, 405 were picked up from what are often unseaworthy people smugglers’ vessels, with seven children and babies among the African migrants. The rescuers were unaware of any who were in […]
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More than 200 migrants have drowned in the Mediterranean from January to June, bringing the overall death toll so far this year to more than 1,000, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has said. IOM said the tragic weekend began on Friday with two shipwrecks adding to the alarming increase in migrant deaths off Libya […]
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No fewer than 17 million Africans left the continent in 2017 in search of greener pastures, a new report by the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has said. The ‘Economic Development in Africa’ report also said 5.5 million people moved to Africa from other continents while some 19 million international migrants moved within […]
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The Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, says it has arrested 67 irregular migrants from the Republic of Niger. Sunday James, the spokesman of the agency, announced this in a statement on Saturday in Abuja. James said that the foreigners were intercepted by the Special Border Corps of the NIS while trying to enter the country via […]
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Israel announced Monday it had reached a deal with the UN refugee agency to cancel a controversial plan to deport African migrants and replace it with a new one that will see thousands sent to Western countries. A minimum of 16,250 migrants will be resettled in unspecified Western nations under the agreement announced in a […]
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The Libyan Navy on Wednesday said as many as 100 migrants have gone missing after their boat sank off the coast of Libya. The Libyan coastguard rescued 17 people from the boat that sank off the town of al-Khoms east of the Libyan capital Tripoli, the navy said on its Facebook page. The survivors clung […]
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The federal government has said that it has evacuated 7,000 migrants, with additional 250 arriving Nigeria today. Sadia Faruk, the Director-General of the National Refugee Commission, told newsmen after a meeting she and her counterparts in the National Emergency Management Agency and the NAPTIP held with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. Faruq, who said 460 others […]
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