Geneva, Switzerland - The pernicious "'great replacement' conspiracy theories" spreading in many countries are "delusional" and racist and are directly spurring violence, the United Nations rights chief warned on Monday. United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk also took aim at the "war on woke", which he stressed was...
Italy allows migrant rescue ship dock for health checks
Rome, Italy— Italy will allow an NGO ship carrying 179 migrants rescued in the Mediterranean to dock so medics can carry out health checks, the country's foreign minister said Friday. Antonio Tajani said that German NGO SOS Humanity's vessel Humanity 1 would head for Catania, Sicily, and "be able to stay...Tunisia intercepts more than 800 migrants in one night
Authorities also said they had detained 48 people, including six already wanted for allegedly "joining a gang in order to illegally cross borders". The interior ministry had announced the arrests of more than 1,300 suspected people traffickers, both Tunisian and of other nationalities, in recent days.
UN denounces ‘heinous killing’ of migrants in Libya
Accusing smugglers of being behind the "heinous killing" of 15 migrants near the Mediterranean coastal city of Sabratha, the United Nations mission in Libya said the bodies were found on a beach with most of them burned inside a charred boat. It called for a swift investigation to bring "all...
Tunisia coastguard struggles to rein in migrant boats
Tunis--As dawn breaks over the Mediterranean, Tunisian coastguards intercept a flimsy craft packed with migrants, bringing their dream of reaching Europe to an end -- for now. "This is your final warning: stop!" an officer shouts. Some two dozen migrants, wearing inflated inner tubes as makeshift life preservers, look downcast...Morocco triples migrants’ jail terms over border storming
The 18 migrants -- among more than 60 arrested following the Melilla tragedy -- had initially been sentenced to 11 months in prison.
Morocco court toughens migrants’ sentences over border tragedy
The Spanish enclaves of Melilla and Ceuta have long been a magnet for people fleeing violence and poverty across Africa and seeking refuge via the continent's only land borders with the EU. Since the June 24 incident, dozens of mostly Sudanese migrants have been sentenced to prison terms ranging from...Lebanon migrant ship death toll rises to 94
The toll has repeatedly ratcheted higher since the first bodies were found on Thursday. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Filippo Grandi, described the shipwreck as a "heart-wrenching tragedy".Morocco court sentences 12 migrants to jail over violence
Nearly three months after the border tragedy in which two dozen migrants died, a Moroccan appeals court has sentenced 12 Sudanese migrants to three years in jail over violence. Some 2,000 people, many of them Sudanese, stormed the frontier on June 24 in an attempt to reach Spanish territory.61 dead in migrant shipwreck off Syria coast, says Lebanon
At least 61 migrants drowned when a boat they boarded in Lebanon sank off Syria's coast, a Lebanese minister said, the deadliest such shipwreck from Lebanon in recent years.
Six migrants including two babies die at sea after Greek pushback: Turkey
Another 73 migrants were also rescued off Mugla province in the southwest, the coastguard said. The migrants were pushed back to Turkish waters by Greek forces in four boats, according to the coastguard, who cited a detailed interview with the migrants.More than 13,000 Tunisian migrants reach Italy: report
Searching for a new life in Europe, some 13,000 Tunisian migrants have succeeded in reaching Italy by sea since the beginning of the year, almost a fifth of them minors. According to a Tunisian rights group more than 500 migrants also lost their lives or are missing while making the...UN says six Syrians die in attempt to reach Italy
More than thirty people attempted the crossing on the vessel, with many of the survivors in an "extremely serious" state of health according to UNHCR.Syrian refugees to set off in caravan for EU from Turkey
Desperate to rid the uncertainty hanging over their future, dozens of Syrian refugees in Turkey are planning to form a caravan to reach the European Union. According to organizers, plans are being drawn up online where calls are being issued to people to bring sleeping bags, tents, life jackets, canned...
Morocco retrieves eight migrant bodies off its coast
Moroccan authorities on Monday retrieved the bodies of eight migrants off the southern shores of the North African kingdom, local officials said.
EU lifts sanctions on Syria’s Cham Wings airline
The European Union said Wednesday it has lifted sanctions against Syria's private airline Cham Wings, after the company was blacklisted last year for its alleged role in illegal migration to Europe. "On 18 July, Cham Wings was removed from the list of entities subject to EU sanctions in respect of...
Tunisia coastguard says rescued 455 migrants in one night
National guard units in the north, center, east and south thwarted 37 attempts to cross, Tunisia's maritime borders, the National Guard said in a statement.For some Iraqi Kurds, Europe is a destination well worth the risk
Iraqi Kurd Haresh Talib says he struggles to get paid and his children's schooling is disrupted in his conflict-riddled country, so he wants to try to flee with his family to Europe again.EU, Morocco to step up anti-smuggling ties after migrant deaths
At a meeting Friday in Rabat, the EU and Morocco "agreed to renew their partnership in order to work together to tackle human smuggling networks.
22 Malian migrants died in boat disaster off Libya: UN
Twenty-two Malian migrants died in a boat disaster off the Libyan coast, the UN said Tuesday, citing survivors who reported victims drowning and dehydrating with three children reportedly among the dead. After nine days at sea, 61 survivors, mostly from Mali, were rescued by the Libyan coastguard and brought back...
Morocco puts migrants on trial for attempt to cross into Spain
The trial of 36 migrants accused of "illegally entering" Morocco started Monday but was immediately halted, lawyers said, days after a mass attempt to cross into a Spanish enclave.18 African migrants die in mass attempt to enter Spain’s Melilla
Around 2,000 migrants approached Melilla at dawn Friday and more than 500 managed to enter a border control area after cutting a fence with shears.
More than 70 migrants missing after boat sinks off Tunisia: coastguard
More than 70 people are missing in the Mediterranean after a boat crowded with migrants headed for Europe from Libya sank off neighbouring Tunisia, the coastguard said Wednesday. The boat, which was carrying around 100 people when it put to sea, capsized off the Tunisian port of Sfax, with coastguard...
More than 100 million people forcibly displaced: UN
Russia's war in Ukraine has pushed the number of forcibly displaced people around the world above 100 million for the first time ever, the United Nations said Monday. The "alarming" figure must shake the world into ending the conflicts forcing record numbers to flee their own homes, the UNHCR said...Nearly 60 mn people internally displaced worldwide in 2021
Last year, new internal displacements from conflict surged to 14.4 million marking a 50-percent jump from 2020 and more than doubling since 2012, the report showed.
Morocco, Spain reopen borders after two-year closure
The gates opened shortly after 11:00 pm local time (2200 GMT) on Monday night, letting dozens of cars and queues of pedestrians pass in both directions.
More than 40 migrants drown off Western Sahara: charity
At least 44 migrants drowned on Sunday when their boat capsized off the coast of the Western Sahara, migrant aid agency Caminando Fronteras said. Twelve others survived the tragedy, which happened when the boat sunk off the coast of Cap Boujdour, the agency's Helena Maleno tweeted. The bodies of seven...Biden, Mexican president warn of ‘unprecedented’ migration flow
US President Joe Biden and his Mexican counterpart Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador warned of "unprecedented" pressure from migration in a call Friday that highlighted a major political headache for the White House ahead of November elections. "In view of the unprecedented flows of migrants from throughout the hemisphere to our...
Lebanon tells military to probe deadly migrant boat capsize
Families have reported at least 23 still missing, all women and children while Lebanese govt asked armed forces to investigate the deadly boat capsize.
Six dead, 29 missing after migrant boat capsizes off Libya
Six people were found dead and 29 are missing and presumed dead after their boat capsized off the coast of Libya, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Saturday. "A small wooden boat carrying around 35 migrants capsized off Sabratha, #Libya yesterday," the IOM tweeted.Nearly 100 die in new Mediterranean boat tragedy: UN, MSF
Prior to the latest tragedy, the UN's International Organization for Migration had recorded 367 deaths in the Mediterranean so far this year, after registering 2,048 such deaths in 2021.Two migrants drown off Morocco coast, more than 200 arrested
In total, 236 migrants were arrested by Moroccan authorities during operations in Tarfaya, located 100 kilometers from the Canary Islands.Ship rescues 128 migrants, finds two dead In Mediterranean
Migrants from African countries ravaged by war and poverty, make desperate bids to reach Europe through Mediterranean sea which is the world's deadliest migration route.
Number of Italy bound under-18 Tunisian migrants quadruples in four years
A record number of irregular migrants under 18 years old reached Italy from Tunisia last year, more than quadrupling in four years, a rights group said Wednesday. Tunisia has become a major conduit for migrants seeking to reach European shores, particularly the Italian island of Lampedusa, just 130 kilometers (80...44 migrants drown in boat capsize off Morocco’s coast
The European Union said this week it wanted to bolster cooperation with Morocco to stem the flow of illegal migrants entering the bloc.
North Africa-Europe migrant deaths at sea up 155%: UN
The surge in deaths came alongside evidence of both increased arrivals in at least one key destination and rising interceptions.Godsend or ‘ghetto’: Syrian migrants flock to small Cyprus town
The Cypriot government says the divided country has the highest number of first-time asylum applications in the European Union per capita.Iraq sends planes to Belarus to collect over 600 migrants
Hundreds of Iraqis, most of them Kurds, returned home last week on a voluntary repatriation flight from Belarus.Lebanon to travel agents: Stop advertising Belarus
Tourism Minister Walid Nassar said the move was aimed at preventing Beirut from being used as a departure point.Iraq and Germany call for stopping networks of human trafficking
Iraq and Germany have said there was a need for moving quickly to stop the networks of human trafficking. Iraqi media reports said that foreign minister Fuad Hussain met with the German minister of state for Foreign Affairs, Miguel Burger, on the sidelines of the Regional Security Summit, The IISS...Lebanese army stops boat carrying 90 people off coast
Women and children were among the group intercepted Friday by a navy patrol off the coast of Qalamoun in northern Lebanon, the army says
Lebanon stops 82 people attempting sea crossing to Europe
Lebanese security forces on Friday said they thwarted an attempt by more than 80 people to illegally cross by sea into Europe from Lebanon. In a statement, the Internal Security Forces said they raided a "tourist resort" in the Qalamoun area of north Lebanon on Thursday after being tipped off....
Hundreds of migrants try to cross EU border despite easing of crisis
Polish border guards said there were attempted crossings by two groups on what is the eastern border of the European Union and NATO -- one involving 500 migrants, some of whom threw rocks and tear gas canisters. The border guards said they had detained 45 migrants.
G7 calls for Belarus to end migrant crisis immediately
G7 foreign ministers urged Belarus Thursday to end a migrant crisis on its border with Poland, accusing it of callously engineering the stand-off and putting lives at risk.Hundreds of migrants assisted off coast, says Morocco
Moroccan coast guards have assisted more than 300 migrants in difficulty aboard various craft since Friday.Cham Wings halts Minsk flights
The airline cited the Belarus-Poland border crisis as a reason.Iraq to repatriate citizens ‘who volunteer’ from Belarus
Iraq said on Friday it was drawing up lists of those among the hundreds of Iraqis blocked on the border between Belarus and Poland who wish to be repatriated voluntarily. "We are ready to organize more than one trip to provide an urgent response to anyone wanting to come home...Despite dangers, Iraqi Kurds crossing borders to reach Europe
About 3,000 Kurds have left the region in the past three months, of whom 1,600 have gone to Belarus on tourist visas, according to the Kurdistan Refugee Association.Mideast migrants trapped in border standoff
Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko accused of luring migrants from the Middle East to his country to send them across the border in retaliation for EU sanctions.
French police cause misery for migrants in Calais: HRW
Calais has for years been a rallying point for migrants from the Middle East, Asia and Africa trying to smuggle across the English Channel to Britain.
Merkel prepares to leave the stage
Assuming she stays on to hand over power, Merkel will tie or exceed Helmut Kohl's longevity record for a post-war leader, depending on how long the upcoming coalition negotiations drag on.
