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Four dead, 51 missing in shipwreck off Tunisia At least 11 migrants have died in a shipwreck off Tunisia's coast and...
Migrants: Ten dead migrants wash ashore in Tunisia
The bodies of 10 migrants have been found on a beach in Tunisia, near the city of Sfax which has seen a spike this...
Tunisia: 16 migrants die off the coast of Zarzis
Tunisia rescued Thursday 166 migrants stranded at sea for nearly a week, recovering the bodies of 16 others who died...
Morocco: Heightened migration crisis in western Med Sea
More than 300 migrants rescued off the coast of Morocco Morocco's navy has rescued 344 migrants, including women and...
Libya: Migrants returned to Libya by Europe suffer “horrific violations’
Amnesty International on Thursday condemned the "horrific violations" being committed against migrants returned to...
Tunisia: Despite poverty and hardship, southern Tunisians are welcoming of migrants
By Zeďneb Boughzou In the front row of a small classroom, three women, all different nationalities, avidly learn...
Migrants: Rescue ship Ocean Viking docks in Sicily with almost 600 migrants
Italy on Thursday authorised the Ocean Viking migrant rescue ship to dock in Sicily after the group urged EU members...
Tunisia: At least 60 migrants drown off the coast of Sfax
More than 60 migrants of sub-Saharan origin have been lost at sea off Tunisia since Saturday, after two Europe-bound...
Migrants: The deadly waters of the Western Mediterranean
Spiking sea crossings on makeshift boats lead to increase of undocumented Algerian migrants arriving in Spain and...
Tunisia: With a destabilized Libya, Tunisia grapples with migrant crisis
Tunisia authorities on Thursday rescued 267 migrants, most of them Bangladeshis, who tried to sail from neighbouring...
Libya: Sexual slavery in Libya’s 21st century
By Caroline Nelly Perrot For Aisha, sexual slavery was something you only heard about happening to others in...
Migrant crisis: 3,000 mostly Moroccan migrants still inside Spain’s Ceuta
A month after more than 10,000 people surged across the Moroccan border into Ceuta, around 3,000 of them are still...
Tunisia: Two migrants drown, others missing
At least 23 migrants were missing and two bodies recovered from the sea off Tunisia, the Red Crescent reported...
Libya: Pressure on Libya and Europe to review their rescue operations in the Med Sea
By Robin Millard The United Nations urged Libya and the EU to overhaul their search and rescue operations in the...
Morocco: Despair and Western Sahara politics fuel migration drama in Morocco
Spain accuses Morocco of 'aggression' and 'blackmail' over migrant crisis Madrid, May 20, 2021 (AFP) - Spain's defence...
Morocco uses threat of migrants to force Spain to change its position on the Western Sahara conflict
Morocco-Spain relations facing new challenges as Morocco focuses solely on Western Sahara politics By Hazel Ward,...
Tunisia: 17 Europe-bound migrants drown off Tunisia
At least 17 migrants drowned as a boat sank off Tunisia, the International Organization for Migration said Thursday,...
Tunisia: Migrant sea crossings from Tunisia could surge this summer
By Kaouther Larbi - Aminata Traoure survived a shipwreck in which she lost her baby daughter, her sister and her niece...
Migrants from Morocco resort to swimming to flee to Europe
Around 100 migrants tried to swim to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from neighbouring Morocco, Spanish police said...
Libya: Tragedy at sea after migrant boat capsizes
Ten bodies were spotted near a capsized rubber boat off the coast of Libya on Thursday, which had around 130 people...
Tunisia: Dozens of would-be-migrants drown off the coast of Sfax
At least 41 people, including a child, have died after a boat carrying African migrants to Europe sank off Tunisia,...
Libya intercepts large number of would-be migrants
Libya's coastguard intercepted almost 1,000 Europe-bound migrants off its western coast in two days, the International...
Tunisia: Dozens of migrants drown off the coast of Sfax
At least 39 migrants drowned off Tunisia when two boats capsized on Tuesday, the defence ministry said, as numbers...
More migrants rescued off the coast of Libya
German charity Sea-Watch said Saturday it had saved nearly 150 migrants off the Libyan coast in two operations. Its...
Libya: Large numbers of migrants continue to brave the Mediterranean Sea to reach Europe
Libya has rescued more than 1,500 would-be migrants off its west coast in the past week, a non-governmental...
Libya: Rescue operations fetch 374 vulnerable migrants off the coast of Libya in two days
More than 350 migrants have been rescued off the Libyan coast by the Ocean Viking humanitarian vessel in just two...
Algeria: 20 migrants killed in new year accident near Sahara town of Tamanrasset
Twenty people were killed Thursday in Algeria when a vehicle carrying mainly African nationals overturned in the south...
Sahel: Being a Malian migrant
The age of 43, Aboubacar Traore is trying once again to kickstart his life after three failed attempts at migration....
Morocco: Franco-Moroccan agreement on repatriation of child migrants
Paris and Rabat signed an agreement Monday on repatriating underage Moroccan migrants, the most complex of the...
Spain confronts more migrants with new camps in the Canary Islands
Spanish authorities want to resume migrant deportations Spain's Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska on Friday...
Spain to fast-track deportations of migrants specifically from Ceuta and Melilla
Spain's Constitutional Court on Thursday backed the rapid deportation of migrants who illegally enter the country's...
Spain confronts major migrant crisis on Canary Islands
Spain's defence minister admitted Friday the government needed to look critically at its approach to the migrant...
Libya: Death toll from recent migrant shipwrecks reaches 100
Italian coastguard rescues migrant boats near Lampedusa Italy's coastguard rescued about 170 migrants on two separate...
Immigration: Interceptions of migrants off the coast of Libya on the rise
A total of 575 migrants have been intercepted off Libya's western coast in just a week, the UN's migration agency said...
Immigration: Concern over immigration in France after Nice attack
Tunisian President Kais Saied spoke with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron Saturday about migration and...
More North Africans die at sea in desperate effort to escape misery
At least 11 migrants died on Sunday when their boat floundered off the coast of Libya, the UN's migration agency said,...
Libya: Shipwreck off Libya coast claims lives of 15 migrants
A shipwreck off Libya has left at least 15 migrants dead, the UN's migration agency said Wednesday, the latest tragedy...
Libya: Another rogue official arrested in Libya for human trafficking
Libya's UN-recognised government on Wednesday announced the arrest of a former coastguard wanted by Interpol and under...
Tunisia: More migrants perish off the coast of Sfax
Nine more bodies have been recovered after a migrant boat sank off Tunisia, raising the death toll to at least 11 with...
Migrants in Algeria confronted with mass deportations and abuse
Algerian security forces have arrested thousands of migrants and asylum seekers, cramming them onto trucks and buses...
Egypt: With their rulers sowing the seeds of misery, Egyptians brave the seas to flee to Europe
Thousands of desperate migrants bound for Europe have perished in the Mediterranean Sea. In one impoverished Egyptian...
Libya: More tragedy at sea, with migrants dead, others missing
Tripoli, Sept 25, 2020 - The International Organization for Migration said Friday the bodies of three migrants whose...