•Spanish-French border Spain has said that it will introduce temporary border checks on travellers from Italy as a response to Italy imposing similar measures after a mass migrant rush into Ceuta. The checks, which came on yesterday “amid the persistent irregular migration pressure” facing Italy, will start at midnight today and last until Sep...
Thousands of migrants streamed into the tiny Spanish territory of Ceuta from Morocco today, prompting local officials to call on Spain to declare a national emergency and send the army to restore the frontier. Spain’s interior ministry said it would guarantee the safety of citizens and the integrity of the nation’s border, but that the [&helli...
•Anti-immigrants protesters in South Africa Zimbabwean farmworker Aaron Majatamhe was heading home at sunset after a shift in one of South Africa’s top fruit-producing regions, where bushes laden with bright unpicked citrus stood in rows. “I see a lot of farm owners who are crying now… people have to harvest those naartjies but there is [&hell...
•Some deported migrants from US Fifteen people have arrived in DR Congo after being expelled from the United States as part of an immigration crackdown, the UN confirmed yesterday, with a local source saying they were from Peru and Ecuador. The arrivals in Kinshasa overnight Thursday to yesterday are the first under the deal to […]
•Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson Sweden’s government today said it would put forward a bill introducing a requirement for migrants to adhere to an “honest living” or face deportation. The country’s right-wing government, which came into power in 2022 vowing to get tough on immigration, is currently trying to rapidly push through a slew...
•Tijani Aliyu Ahmed and Lieutenant General Waidi Shaibu The Nigerian Army has expressed readiness to assist agencies to address the challenges of refugees, migrants and internally displaced persons in the country. The Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Waidi Shaibu, gave the assurance yesterday when he received the Federal Commissi...
•Mass grave in Libya Libyan authorities have uncovered a mass grave containing the bodies of 21 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa, local media reported yesterday. News outlets cited government sources as saying a Libyan national has been arrested on suspicion of killing the migrants and holding others captive on a farm in the northeastern town ...
•President John Mahama of Ghana A civil society group has filed a lawsuit seeking to declare illegal the deportation deal between Ghana and the US government, and the way the West African deportees are being treated, court documents show. Ghanaian leader John Mahama disclosed last month that his country had struck a deal with the […]
•UK flag Migrants seeking to settle in the UK will have to have a job, not claim benefits, and undertake community work under plans to be unveiled by the interior minister today. Currently, those with family in Britain and who have lived there for five years qualify for “indefinite leave to remain” — permanent residence […]
•US President Donald Trump The US Supreme Court has cleared the way for President Donald Trump’s administration to resume deportations of migrants to countries other than their homeland. By 6-3, the justices reversed a lower court order requiring the government to give migrants a “meaningful opportunity” to tell officials what risks they might...

