Nine migrants were arrested in the Canary Islands on "piracy" charges for forcing the ship that rescued them to change...
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Migrations: Italy wants rescue ships to return migrants to own countries
First migrants in a week land on Italy's Lampedusa A small group of Tunisians arrived by boat on the Italian island of...
Tunisia’s foreign migrant problem
Thousands of migrants are living without proper shelter north of Tunisia's port city of Sfax after many were driven...
Migrations: Italy tells Tunisia to help reduce irregular migration in exchange of more legal migrant inflow
Italy is prepared to allow more Tunisians to reach its shores legally in exchange for greater efforts to cut irregular...
Spain cracks down on use and abuse of undocumented migrants in agriculture
Spanish police said Thursday they have broken up a criminal group that exploited undocumented migrant workers in the...
Morocco: Migrant incursions from Morocco to Melilla on new year’s eve
A group of Moroccans entered Spain's Melilla enclave overnight Saturday-Sunday, a rights group said, out of dozens...
Morocco sentences for migrants over Melilla tragedy ‘unjust’: rights group
A Moroccan rights group on Saturday slammed "unjust" punishments given to migrants sentenced over a mass attempted...
Tunisia deports migrants, rights group calls move “repressive and inhumane”
A Tunisian rights group condemned Sunday a "repressive and inhumane" government decision to deport a group of migrants...
France set to readjust visa issuance policy for Maghreb visitors
By Delphine Touitou: France and Morocco announced Friday they were mending fences after months of tensions over visas,...
Spain looks for 12 who fled plane after ’emergency landing’
Spanish police were still searching for 12 passengers who fled their plane Wednesday after an emergency landing at...
Tunisian migrants increasingly eyeing Germany as a destination
By Françoise Kadri: Germany is becoming a key destination for disillusioned young Tunisians despite a language barrier...
Tunisia wants toddler migrant back after she reached Italy without parents
Tunisia said Wednesday it plans to repatriate a four-year-old girl who reached Italy aboard a boat with other...
Migration: Three-year old girl from Tunisia reaches Italy on migrant boat, without parents
A Tunisian toddler aged just three has reached Italy aboard a boat with other irregular migrants, but without her...
Tunisia: Hundreds of migrants intercepted in Tunisia, others arrested for human smuggling
Tunisian authorities said on Friday they had intercepted more than 800 people making clandestine attempts to reach...
Tunisia: Bodies of eight migrants found off Zarzis
The bodies of eight migrants, thought to be Tunisians missing for two weeks, were recovered Monday off the coast of...
Morocco triples migrants’ jail terms over border storming
A Moroccan appeals court more than tripled to three years prison sentences against 18 African migrants over the deadly...
Morocco: Dozen undocumented Sudanese migrants get 3 years in Moroccan prison
A Moroccan appeals court has sentenced 12 Sudanese migrants to three years in jail over violence in the run-up to a...
Migrations: Number of Tunisians fleeing their country to Italy up 11% this year
More than 13,000 clandestine Tunisian migrants have reached Italy by sea since the start of the year, almost a fifth...
Sahel: 50 migrants rescued in Niger desert
A total of 50 West African migrants, including women and children, were rescued in the desert in northern Niger near...
Algeria deports hundreds of migrants from Niger
More than 800 migrants expelled this week by Algeria have reached the northern Niger town of Agadez, local authorities...
Tunisia: Three migrants drown off Gabes coast
Three irregular migrants drowned off Tunisia's coast after their Europe-bound boat bound sank, authorities in the...
Libya: Egyptian migrants dead and missing after boat sank off the coast Tolmeta
Five migrants died and 16 went missing after their boat sank off the coast of eastern Libya while attempting to reach...
Migration: Hundreds of migrants rescued off the coast of Tunisia
Tunisian coastguards "rescued" more than 250 migrants who were attempting to cross the Mediterranean to Italy, the...
Egyptian migrant dies in France after police shootout
An Egyptian migrant has died after being shot at by French police who tried to stop a van that had rammed through...
Spain warns Morocco not to weaponize immigration in their bilateral dealings
Spain "will not tolerate" the use of immigration as a "means of pressure", Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said...
Moroccans living abroad return home this summer in large numbers
Morocco on Sunday begins welcoming an influx of its citizens living in Europe after the pandemic led to a halt in what...
Tunisia/Libya: Another tragedy at sea with 70 missing migrants
Four migrants drown, three missing off Libya Tripoli, May 24, 2022 - Four migrants were found dead and three were...
Migration: Dozens of migrants rescued by Tunisian navy
The Tunisian navy said Saturday it rescued 81 migrants, one of them a woman, who had set out for Europe from Libya on...
Tunisia: Child migrant crossings from Tunisia take on alarming proportions
A record number of irregular migrants under 18 years old reached Italy from Tunisia last year, more than quadrupling...
Migrations: 70 migrants missing off Libya coast, presumed dead
Around 70 migrants are presumed dead after going missing off the Libyan coast since late February, the International...
Migrations: Failed attempts at sea crossing from North Africa killed at least 1,160 migrants in 2021
More than 1,160 migrants died at sea attempting to reach Europe from North Africa in the first half of 2021, up 155...
Tunisia: Sub-Saharan refugees decry violence against them, seek help to return home
Dozens of refugees from Sudan and sub-Saharan African countries protested in Tunisia on Monday, complaining of...
Algerian doctors leaving their country in droves, as nearly third of youth say they want to leave too
Women in Algerian prisons just for their opinions Mostaganem: After court postpones trial, jailed Hirak activity...
Tunisia rescues 163 migrants off coast of Sfax
The Tunisian navy has rescued 163 would-be migrants, including women and children, off the country's east coast, the...
Migration: Migrants rescued off the coast of Morocco
The Moroccan navy on Tuesday rescued 63 migrants including 15 women and three children after their vessel started to...
Morocco: 43 drowned as migrant boat capsizes off Morocco
Forty-three migrants including three infants died after their boat capsized off the coast of Tarfaya in southern...
Morocco: Tragedy at sea as more migrants attempt dangerous crossings
Moroccan coast guards have assisted more than 300 migrants in difficulty aboard various craft since Friday, the...
North Africa’s skilled workers looking to leave their countries in droves
Subscriber access: Algeria is experiencing a mass exodus of medical doctors and other skilled professionals,...
More people seeking to reach Europe from Libya over dangerous sea
Libya's coastguard said Thursday it had stopped 280 migrants crammed on five boats, as they attempted the dangerous...
Libya: Italian captain given jail term for handing migrants to Libya
By Ella Ide, Alvise Armellini: A ship's captain who rescued a group of 101 migrants from the Mediterranean sea before...
Libya: Bodies of 17 migrants washed up on beach between Zawiya and Sorman
The bodies of 17 migrants have been found washed up on a Libyan beach after their boat capsized during a bid to reach...
Morocco: Rights group criticizes Spain for sending minors back to Morocco
Save the Children on Saturday urged Spain to halt the repatriation to Morocco of hundreds of unaccompanied minors who...
Refugees: Hundreds rescued from drowning off the coast of Libya
By Estelle Emonet Rescue ships picked up more than 700 people trying to cross the Mediterranean in makeshift vessels...