Migrants

Shipwreck leaves 4 Tunisia migrants dead, 7 missing, authorities say

Tunis – Four Tunisians, including a young girl, died and seven others are missing after a boat carrying migrants sank... Read more

21 Jan, 2022

Rabat – Forty-three migrants, including three infants, died after their boat capsized off the coast of Tarfaya in southern Morocco,... Read more

18 Jan, 2022

Tunis – Italy’s top diplomat Luigi Di Maio discussed clandestine migration with Tunisian President Kais Saied on Tuesday, in his... Read more

29 Dec, 2021

Tripoli – The bodies of 28 migrants have washed up on Libya’s western coast after their boat sunk, a... Read more

26 Dec, 2021

Tunis – Tunisian coastguards have rescued 48 illegal migrants trying to reach Europe from neighbouring Libya in a makeshift boat,... Read more

26 Dec, 2021

Rabat – Moroccan police said on Monday they had arrested more than 12 000 people trying to leave the... Read more

22 Dec, 2021

Hargeisa – The people smugglers promised Fentahun Derebe passage to Saudi Arabia, where the young Ethiopian could make more money... Read more

23 Nov, 2021

Rabat – Morocco’s coast guard rescued more than 140 African and Asian migrants in difficulty aboard makeshift boats early on... Read more

23 Nov, 2021

Tunis – Tunisian authorities said on Sunday they had intercepted more than 200 migrants trying to reach the Italian... Read more

22 Nov, 2021

Niamey – The UN Refugee Agency said on Friday it had evacuated 172 Nigerien asylum-seekers from Libya, in the first... Read more

6 Nov, 2021