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Tag: migrants
Libyan Coast Guards Intercept almost 1,000 Migrants in One Day
Libyan coastguards have picked up about 1000 African migrants on inflatable boats in several operations Sunday and recovered the body of ten others, officials at ... Read More
Tunisian Interior Minister Fired over Migration tragedy
Tunisia’s Prime Minister Youssef Chahed on Wednesday fired his interior minister following the death of migrants off the coast of the North African country in ... Read More
Libyan Coastguards Intercept 4 Inflatable Boats Packed with Migrants
Libyan coastguard vessels intercepted Monday four inflatable smuggling boats carrying in total over 500 illegal migrants. The captured migrants, off coast of the North African ... Read More
USA Commends Morocco for Migrants’ Protection
The US welcomed Morocco’s achievements in the field of human rights and democratic consolidation, underscoring in particular the protection of migrants’ rights and the policy ... Read More
Morocco Softens Regularization Requirements for Migrants
Morocco granted residency permits to 14,000 out of 28,000 applicants as part of the second phase of a migrant regularization campaign that lasted from December ... Read More
Algeria Adamant on Violating Migrants’ Rights
Algerian authorities have deported more than 27,000 Sub-Saharan migrants since 2015, in a move that is praised by the interior ministry and denounced by rights ... Read More
Algeria Continues Arbitrary Deportation of Migrants , HRW
Human rights watchdogs are continuing lambasting Algerian authorities for the mistreatment of migrants on Algerian soil and the arbitrary deportation of hundreds of them in ... Read More
AI Lambasts Algeria for “Hostility” to Refugees & Migrants
Amnesty International has rebuked Algeria over its deplorable human rights record smeared by continuing discrimination against refugees and migrants. In its annual report, the international ... Read More
At least 90 Migrants Drowned off Coast of Libya
At least 90 migrants, mostly Pakistanis, lost their lives off the coast of Libya on Friday after their boat capsized, according to press reports. The ... Read More
More than 13,000 African Migrants Repatriated from Libya Since December, AU says
Nearly two months after reports emerged showing African migrants sold out as slaves in Libya, the African Union launched a repatriation operation that saw 13,000 ... Read More