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More than 650 migrants from a dozen African countries have arrived in northern Niger after being expelled by Algeria, local authorities said Tuesday. Some 669 returnees from Algeria, including two Nigeriens, and 667 West and Central African nationals arrived on foot on September 17 in Assamaka, the Nigerien town closest to the Algerian border, after […]
Representatives of UN agencies based in Morocco have lauded the Kingdom’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic as “exemplary”. Morocco’s effective management of the health crisis and its socio-economic effects make of the Kingdom a model in the world, they said, during a virtual meeting on the management of the Covid-19 pandemic. They highlighted the […]
A regional project aimed at strengthening the migrant workers’ protection was launched Wednesday in Rabat in the presence of representatives of Moroccan government, ILO, IOM, EU and Germany. In his inaugural speech, Moroccan Minister Mohamed Amkraz highlighted the Kingdom’s migration & asylum strategy, which has opened up the local labor market to legal migrants, while […]
The 1st regional winter school on the migrants’ health was opened on Monday in Rabat by chief of mission of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Ana Fonseca, Finland ambassador Pekka Hyvönen and Director of National School of Public Health (ENSP), Abdelmounim Belalia. The five-day event will look into several issues related to the sexual, […]
The “dramatically deteriorating humanitarian situation” in Tripoli has highlighted that much more needs to be done to protect all non-combatants caught up in the battle for the Libyan capital, as the number of victims rises and thousands flee their homes, the UN said on Tuesday. In an update to journalists in Geneva, the UN migration agency, IOM, reported that […]
Spain reported a 75% drop in interceptions of illegal migrants’ arrivals compared to a month earlier period, the interior ministry said. Only 936 migrants were intercepted last month compared to 4104 people in January, official figures showed. However, the number of people who made it to Spain was higher in the first two months of […]
Morocco thwarted 89,000 illegal migration attempts to Europe in 2018 as the country became the main gate for migrants willing to risk their lives in the Mediterranean sea to reach Europe, the National Observatory for Migration said. The North African country, a migrants’ destination itself, became a main gate for Europe after Italy pushed for […]
Algeria has been slammed for summary expulsions of more than 37,000 migrants in the desert border with Niger between 2014 and 2018. Algeria’s interior ministry confirmed the figure but claimed that the abandoned migrants were displaced to the border by virtue of an agreement with Niger’s authorities. Human rights groups however hold Algeria responsible for […]
IOM, the UN Migration Agency, reports that 84,345 migrants and refugees entered Europe by sea in 2018 through 3 October, with 38,451 to Spain, the leading destination this year. The data show a drop in the region’s total arrivals compared with 139,677 arrivals across the region through the same period last year, and 312,153 at […]
The Tunisian authorities have finally agreed to accept for humanitarian reasons a commercial vessel carrying around 40 African migrants who have been stranded for two weeks off the country’s coast, ending the ordeal of the migrants including children and two pregnant women. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) hailed the […]