Category : IMMIGRATION & YOU

A member of the Tunisia’s national guard stops a fishing boat in the sea bordering Tunisia and Libya as they check vessels for illegal migrants...

Migrants in Libya have been exposed to of abuse that force many to make the perilous journey across the Mediterranean, Amnesty International claims. Libya, once...

At least 1.5 million people have been displaced in South Sudan since fighting started in 2013, the UN says Close to 100,000 people have been...

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Wednesday said it has arrested a pastor who wanted to smuggle 1.978 kilogrammes of substances suspected to...

ROME: Nearly 4,500 migrants were plucked from boats off the coast of Libya over the weekend and 10 bodies were recovered, Italy’s coast guard and...

This article and radio report by Nina Porzucki for The World originally appeared on PRI.org on April 21, 2015, and is republished here as part of a content-sharing agreement. More...

By Will Coley Sicily As thousands of desperate African migrants arrive on Sicily’s shores, they must suddenly find their footing in a country in the grip...

ITALY has pressed the European Union to devise plans for refugee camps to stop the tide of migrants on smugglers’ boats in the Mediterranean. Italian...

Yemenis trapped in Egypt are amongst thousands of fellow nationals stuck in different countries still yearning for an elusive return to their home soil. The...

Up to 400 illegal migrants died after their vessel capsized off the Libyan coast on Sunday, said survivors who were brought to Italy, where tension...

The United Nations refugee chief António Guterres began a two-day visit to Cameroon today to see the impact of the displacement crises in neighbouring Nigeria...

For 40-years around 100,000 people from the little known country of Western Sahara have waited in a refugee camp over the border in Algeria to...

Hundreds of thousands of protesters took to the streets in cities across Brazil on Sunday to express their ire at President Dilma Rousseff, raising pressure...

   Vice-President Samuel Sam-Sumana Sierre Leone’s Vice President Sam Sumana has applied for asylum at the US embassy in Freetown and is in hiding while...

Inter-Communal and Political Violence Episodes of inter-communal violence in the Middle Belt states of Plateau, Taraba, Benue, and Nasarawa left more than 400 people dead...

His Majesty King Abdullah’s visit to Morocco this week to hold talks with King Mohammed VI is a “historical opportunity” to deepen bilateral relations, Moroccan...

  Conflict in the North-East of Nigeria has escalated in recent months with more than 1.2 million internally displaced persons (IDP) in need of humanitarian...

Several victims of human trafficking have died in a road accident on Friday while they were en route to Sudan’s Northern state, eyewitnesses said The...

  President Barack Obama urged immigrants thrown into limbo by legal wrangling to keep planning for eventual relief, professing confidence on Wednesday that his deportation...