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 … ]
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’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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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 … ]
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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