Tag: migrants

Libyan Coast Guards Intercept almost 1,000 Migrants in One Day

June 25, 2018

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

June 7, 2018

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

May 8, 2018

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

April 22, 2018

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

March 30, 2018

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

March 23, 2018

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

March 14, 2018

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

February 23, 2018

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

February 2, 2018

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

January 30, 2018

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