migrants

The president of the Indian Ocean archipelago of the Comoros says he wants talks with Paris over plans to expel all illegal migrants from the French island of Mayotte, most of whom are Comorians. Earlier, President Azali Assoumani had…

The Indian Ocean archipelago of the Comoros has insisted it will not accept migrants expelled from the neighbouring French island of Mayotte. It comes as authorities in Mayotte have pledged to launch Operation Wuambushu in which all…

The European Union has defended its record of helping to relieve the suffering of migrants in Libya, after U.N.-backed investigators accused the 27-nation bloc of abetting human rights abuses and other crimes in the largely north African…

Nineteen (19) migrants from sub-Saharan Africa died when their boat sank off the Tunisia as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Italy, a human rights group said on Sunday, the latest migrant boat disaster off Tunisia. In the last four…

U.S. officials stopped hundreds of mostly Venezuelan migrants entering the country from Mexico on Sunday after a large group broke through Mexican lines to demand asylum in the U.S., only to be thwarted by barbed wire, barriers and shields.…

The African Union (AU) has criticised Tunisia and urged it to avoid "racialized hate speech" after President Kais Saied ordered the expulsion of undocumented migrants and said immigration was a plot aimed at changing his country's…

French medical charity Doctors Without Borders or MSF, shared footage of the rescue of 237 migrants off the Libyan coast. The NGO's chartered rescue vessel was sailing in the Mediterranean Sea, north of the country's capital Tripoli, when…

The mayor of New York, Eric Adams, travelled to the Mexican border City of El Paso on Sunday and declared that "there is no room in New York for busloads of migrants being sent to America's most populous city." Eric Adams, a Democrat,…

Tunisian police used tear gas on hundreds of demonstrators as they clashed when protesters tried to reach the southern island of Djerba where the 18th Francophonie summit is due to take place. The crowds were trying to establish the fate…

The United States has extended its Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program for citizens of six countries, including Haiti and three Central American nations to mid-2024.