Tag: migrants

Displacement of Malians and other West Africans away from northbound trans-Sahelian routes explains part of this increase.

Picture credit: AP/Yousef Murad. My primary focus was on migrant labour. For this, I took refuge in the UN special ...

“The policy, first adopted in 2015, has now been updated to address emerging migration realities, including economic shifts, conflict-driven displacement, ...

“This exercise is entirely voluntary. We are grateful to the government and people of Chad for their hospitality."

A document obtained by Fox News ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) showed the illegal migrants have been on ICE’s ...

Deputy Speaker Ben Kalu explained that the trend of global warming, erosion, and other natural occurrences also contributes to the ...

Picture credit: AP/Yousef Murad. The far-right swing in Europe, and the threatened Trump return might mean that the West is ...

The NHRC says data shows the Nigerian government needs to focus on the plight of refugees.

Arrangements are understood to be in place for Home Secretary James Cleverly to fly out to Rwanda to ratify a ...

The returnees, who were evacuated by NEMA on behalf of the federal government, arrived on an Ethiopian Airlines chartered flight.

Picture credit: AP/Yousef Murad. What is most tragic is Greece attacking migrant boats within its waters and deliberately sinking them. ...

The Refugee Commission says there are about three million IDPs in Nigeria.

Qatar said the donation was to support the activities of the commission in providing succour to “people of concern’’ in ...

The Commission plans to reintroduce the campaign used to stem brain drain migration in the 80's, during President Buhari’s tenure ...

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) records that the pace of arrivals in the Aegean has gone up ...

The vessel was intercepted by the Italian coastguard 24 kilometers off Lampedusa, at the edge of Italian territorial waters.

There were 26 women, including eight pregnant ones, and 22 children aged below 10 among them

The migrant women were nine and eight months pregnant and had been picked up by the coastguard along with a ...

The rescued migrants included 20 children.

Pope hails Morocco on religious tolerance

According to the UN, 3.4 per cent of the world’s population today, representing 258 million, are international migrants.

The boat was adrift since Sunday with 60 people aboard.

Earlier this month, he likened African immigrants to slaves at a European conference.

Under the proposal, the Union’s common budget would pay out 6,000 euros for each migrant taken in.

“The African migrants at sea are in a bad condition."