•Libya flag Libya today repatriated 369 irregular migrants to their home countries Nigeria and Mali, including more than one hundred women and children, an official told our correspondent. Mohammed Baredaa, head of the Libyan interior ministry organisation tasked with halting irregular migration, said two repatriation flights took place transp...
•Boat on fire At least 40 migrants have died after a boat they were travelling in caught fire off the northern coast of Haiti, a UN agency said yesterday, with police saying the explosion was sparked by a voodoo ritual gone wrong. The UN’s International Organisation for Migration (IOM) reported that the Haitian Coast Guard […]
•Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame The UK expects to deport nearly 6,000 migrants to Rwanda this year, a senior minister said today, after the government published new details on the controversial scheme. The figures come days after the plan aimed at deterring migrant arrivals on small boats from northern Europe became law following months of par...
The bodies of eight migrants have been found after their vessel sank off Morocco’s northern coast, local authorities said today, adding that nine others were rescued. The migrants took off from Morocco’s northern Nador region seeking to “cross the Mediterranean aboard an inflatable boat”, authorities were quoted by the state news agency MAP as...
The federal government, in collaboration with the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), repatriated another batch of 147 irregular Nigerian migrants stranded in Libya yesterday. Amb. Kabiru Musa, Charge d’Affaires En Titre of the Nigerian Mission in Libya, disclosed this in a statement. Musa said the evacuees who departed Tripoli Int...
•Shipwreck No fewer than 61 migrants, including women and children, have drowned following a shipwreck off Libya. The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said the boat had set off from the Libyan city of Zwara with about 86 persons on board, reports The Guardian. Libya is a key transit point along the Central Mediterranean route, [&...
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Ogun State Command, has arrested and paraded 30 young illegal migrants. The State Comptroller of NIS, Abosede Olayemisi, said the illegal migrants from Benin and Congo were also involved in defrauding fellow migrants, reports Daily Trust. She said they were arrested in Abeokuta while defrauding their fell...
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