Immigration Bound

More than 60 migrants of sub-Saharan origin have been lost at sea off Tunisia since Saturday, after two Europe-bound vessels sank, local authorities and the Red Crescent have said.  Tunisia and neighbouring Libya are key departure points for migrants who attempt the...

Spiking sea crossings on makeshift boats lead to increase of undocumented Algerian migrants arriving in Spain and others drowning at sea The North Africa Journal - In just a few days, more than 1,100 Algerian undocumented migrants known in Algeria as Harragas have...

Tunisia authorities on Thursday rescued 267 migrants, most of them Bangladeshis, who tried to sail from neighbouring Libya to Europe across the Mediterranean, the International Organization for Migration said. Tunisia's coastguard said the migrants, who also included...

By Caroline Nelly Perrot For Aisha, sexual slavery was something you only heard about happening to others in television reports, until she found herself locked in a living "hell" in Libya. "I had left a nightmare only to fall into hell," said the migrant from Guinea,...