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Syria Latest News

Over 100,000 migrants left Turkey for Europe, Turkish Interior Minister says

March 1, 2020 MEO Staff

Over 100,000 migrants have left Turkish borders through Edirne for Europe since Friday, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said Sunday. In a statement on his official Twitter account, Soylu updated the figure to 100,577 as of [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Organ Trafficking in Egypt – Exploitation in Focus: Report

February 12, 2019 MEO Staff

Desperate to reach Europe, migrants from Africa are travelling to Egypt and selling body parts to pay for their passage, according to a Guardian report. Wearing a baseball hat and smoking a shisha pipe in [ More … ]

Libya Latest News

Libya threatens to seize NGO migrant rescue boats

September 29, 2017 MEO Staff

Libya’s navy threatens to seize activists’ boats on migrant rescue missions if they enter its waters unauthorized, following a run-in on Wednesday with a German vessel carrying 52 migrants. Libya’s navy warned it will seize [ More … ]

Libya Latest News

Libya: Al-Serraj reportedly warns Europe of terrorists disguised as migrants

August 24, 2017 MEO Staff

Europe will be increasingly at risk from terrorists posing as migrants unless western capitals help Libya to stem the numbers crossing the Mediterranean, the country’s prime minister has told The Times. Fayez al-Serraj, head of [ More … ]

Libya Latest News

Libya navy bars foreign ships from migrant ‘search and rescue’ zone

August 11, 2017 MEO Staff

Commander of Tripoli naval base warns ‘no foreign ship has the right to enter’ designated zone without permission The Libyan navy on Thursday ordered foreign vessels to stay out of a coastal “search and rescue [ More … ]

Libya Latest News

UN backs Italy bid to close migrant route from Libya

August 9, 2017 MEO Staff

Ghassan Salame, the UN’s new envoy to Libya, backed Italy’s drive to stem the flow of migrants leaving the north African state for Europe, despite concerns among human rights groups. The UN’s new envoy to [ More … ]

Refugee Crisis

645 Europe-bound migrants detained in Turkey’s Izmir

August 1, 2017 MEO Staff

Turkish security forces detained at least 645 foreign nationals over the past week as they tried to cross into Europe illegally from western Turkey’s Izmir province. The detentions came as part of operations targeting illegal [ More … ]

Libya Latest News

Refugees ‘facing torture’ inside Libyan detention center

May 26, 2017 MEO Staff

56 Algerians and 400 Moroccans remain in danger after being held in Libya’s al-Nasr detention facility in al-Zawiyah. Libyan coastguards have intercepted more than 450 people at sea attempting to reach Europe’s southern shores using [ More … ]

Libya Latest News

3,000 immigrants ‘rescued off Libya coast’

April 16, 2017 MEO Staff

The Italian coastguard and other boats rescued some 3,000 immigrants from unseaworthy boats off Libya coasts on Saturday. The Italian coastguard and other boats rescued some 3,000 people from unseaworthy boats off the Libyan coast on [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Egyptian Court Sentenced 56 people to Prison for Rachid Boat Accident

March 28, 2017 Ahmed Rashed

An Egyptian court has sentenced 56 people to prison terms of up to 14 years over a boat that capsized last year, killing more than 200 on board. On 21 September, 2016, the incident occurred off [ More … ]

Saudi Arabia News

Somalia blames Saudi-led coalition for horrific strike on boat

March 19, 2017 MEO Staff

Somalia’s government is blaming the Saudi-led coalition for an attack on a boat that killed at least 42 Somali refugees off the coast of war-torn Yemen. Somalia’s government on Saturday blamed the Saudi-led coalition for [ More … ]

Morocco

Over 18,000 Sub-Saharans Seek to Regularize Their Migration Status in Morocco

March 10, 2017 MEO Staff

Irregular migrants have been filed in Morocco, from the launch of the 2nd phase of this operation until March 8, Minister for Moroccans Living Abroad and Migration Affairs, Anis Birou, said. When the second phase [ More … ]

Analysis

Report: Desperate migrants escape Libya ‘hell’

February 28, 2017 MEO Staff

Surge in number of migrants attempting to reach Italy driven by nightmarish conditions Nightmarish conditions in Libya are helping to drive a surge in the numbers of migrants attempting to reach Italy in the depths [ More … ]

Egypt Latest News

Boat Carrying Migrants Capsized Off Egypt’s Coast

September 22, 2016 Ahmed Rashed

A boat carrying almost 600 people capsized off Egypt’s coast, killing at least 43, in the latest disaster among migrants trying to reach Europe, reported Reuters. The boat sank in the Mediterranean Sea off Burg [ More … ]

Report: What awaits migrants stuck in Greece's islands?
Refugee Crisis

Report: What awaits migrants stuck in Greece’s islands?

September 21, 2016 Ahmed Rashed

There are now more than 60,000 refugees and migrants in Greece, most of them seeking to travel to Germany and other EU countries. But they are unable to do so after several eastern European and [ More … ]

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