Thousands of refugees fleeing Darfur to neighbouring Chad to escape fighting and ethnically targeted attacks in Sudan’s western region are struggling to secure basic shelter and supplies as heavy rains and winds batter makeshift camps.
EU-Tunisia migration deal: Encouraging the people smugglers?
Africans in Tunisia, who are trying to make their way to Europe via irregular migration routes, are unimpressed with the new “strategic agreement” on migration — that’s if they’ve heard of it at all. The
Watchdog finds ‘serious’ Tunisia abuses against black African migrants
Tunisian security forces have committed “serious abuses” against black African migrants, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday, calling on the European Union to suspend migration control funding to the country. The New York-based watchdog said
Nearly 900 migrants rescued by Moroccan navy, one drowned
Over the past few days, the Moroccan navy has rescued almost 900 illegal migrants, most of them from sub-Saharan Africa, including 400 in territorial waters, according to a military source, while attempts to cross to
Sudan: Conflict displaces nearly 200,000 alone in the past week
Nearly 200,000 people were displaced by fighting inside Sudan over the past week, the UN reported on Tuesday, citing new figures released by the International Organization for Migration (IOM). Overall, more than 2.6 million people
Migrants and refugees, oblivion even in death
For more than 30 years, NGOs and journalists have been warning about the growth in the number of crossings of migrants and refugees in the Mediterranean. These testimonies, which struggle to illustrate the extent of
La route des Canaries, “mortifère” chemin bis des migrants vers l’Europe
Pour se rendre en Europe, les migrants subsahariens passent aussi par l’archipel des Canaries depuis la côte africaine – Maroc, Sahara occidental et Sénégal. Malgré sa dangerosité, cette route maritime est depuis quelques jours un
Au Soudan en guerre, plus de trois millions de personnes ont fui leur foyer
Plus de trois millions de personnes ont fui leur foyer au Soudan où la guerre fait rage depuis trois mois, l’émissaire de l’ONU, désormais persona non grata à Khartoum, appelant à ce que les deux
Des migrants subsahariens abandonnés dans le désert tunisien
La répression contre les personnes en situation irrégulière vient de franchir un nouveau cap, en Tunisie. Des centaines de migrants originaires d’Afrique subsaharienne auraient été renvoyés de force dans les zones désertiques à la frontière
Trois bateaux de migrants partis du Sénégal toujours introuvables au large des Canaries
Trois embarcations parties il y a deux semaines de Kafountine, ville côtière du sud du Sénégal, avec à leur bord plus de 300 migrants en direction de l’archipel espagnol des Canaries restent toujours introuvables. “L’avion