4 drown in Tunisia as migrant boat capsizes
4 died and 21 were rescued as a migrant ship sank in Tunisia, according to Asharq Al-Awsat, September 13. A...
Migration
Row erupts in Germany over “illegal migration” from “safe countries”
Politicians in Germany argue whether North African countries, Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco should be considered as safe countries when discussing asylum...
France Algerians Protest: Hunger Strike for Reunification
As tensions brew between Paris and Algiers, news of the mistreatment of Algerian migrants in France threatens to exacerbate President...
Detainees expose horrific conditions in Libyan refugee camps
Disturbing reports are emerging from refugee camps in North Africa as former detainees recount their experiences of torture and hunger...
Over 400 rescued over two days off Tunisian & Libyan coasts
A French NGO, SOS Méditerranée, has been responsible for saving 438 migrants through a rescue ship called Ocean Viking in...
Libya to deport hundreds of migrants from Africa
Libya’s authorities stated on August 21 that they would deport nearly 500 migrants from Nigeria and Egypt. General Imad Trabelsi,...
Morocco smugglers now using jet skis to ferry migrants to EU
Networks of people smugglers in Morocco are now using jet skis to send migrants to Europe. This is despite a tightening...
Tunisia, Libya Unite for Border Migrant Refuge
Tunisia and Libya have said they had decided to split the cost of housing hundreds of migrants who were stuck...
41 dead as migrant boat capsizes in Tunisia
Forty-one people are believed dead as a migrant boat carrying Africans capsized off Tunisia. The Italian Red Cross and...
27 African migrants found dead in desert near Tunisia-Libya border
At least 27 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa have died in recent days near the border with Tunisia and Libya. The Libyan...
Tunisian Arrest Leads to Pregnant Sudanese Abandonment
Pregnant Sudanese 26 year old nurse Tafaul Omar was left stranded under the burning desert heat. She was among 14...
50 Moroccans caught in Atlantic by Navy
The Moroccan navy intercepted more than fifty migrants from sub-Saharan Africa off the southern coast of Morocco on August 8....
41 dead in migrant shipwreck off Italian island
41 migrants died in one week in the central Mediterranean as a migrant boat suffered a shipwreck. Accounts from...
Morocco navy recovers bodies of 5 Senegalese
The Moroccan navy has recovered the bodies of five Senegalese migrants after their boat capsized off the coast of Western...
51 feared drowned as boat sinks off Tunisia coast
At least 4 migrants were found dead and 51 were missing after a ship carrying migrants sank in Tunisian waters. ...
