GENEVA, Switzerland, December 19, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — IOM, with support from Japan, and in collaboration with the regional…
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Libya’s navy said Monday it had intercepted and rescued 340 illegal migrants off the coast of the western town of Sabratha when their boat began to take on water. The rescue came on the same day Italy’s navy said at least 14 migrants had died when their…
Hundreds of exhausted illegal migrants reached the safety of a northern Sudanese town Saturday, an AFP journalist said, after 10 died when human traffickers abandoned them in the desert. A convoy of six Sudanese army trucks delivered the migrants to…
Ten migrants have died among some 300 abandoned by smugglers in the scorching Sudanese-Libyan desert, with the others in poor condition, Sudanese officials said Wednesday. “They are hungry and thirsty,” Abdelaziz Hassan Salih, a senior official of Sudan…
The European Union said Tuesday it would promote common guidelines across the bloc for the health screening of incoming migrants and refugees. “My intention is to set up a working group… to create guidelines on what (diseases) to screen for, when…
GENEVA, Switzerland, November 22, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — While expulsions of undocumented migrants from Tanzania have tapered off, conditions…
GENEVA, Switzerland, November 19, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — A group of 353 Liberian migrants stranded in Ghana is returning…