Tag: migrants

The boat was carrying 150 people when it went down.

Italy and Malta refused to let it dock.

The world body says U.S. action contravenes the law

The state government said a fishing boat came upon the drifting vessel with 27 people aboard.

The prime minister cancelled the deal after less than 24 hours.

The programme, known as “Home Prospects,” was introduced in March 2017.

Despite the unfavourable conditions in Libya, some Nigerians prefer to stay back there, says Nigeria's Charge d’Affaires there.

“This compares with 345,544 arrivals across the region through the same period in 2016.”

“Slavery has no place in our world and these actions are among the most egregious abuses of human rights.”

“The Italian security officials who made this discovery are yet to confirm if they were purposely killed.”

The deportees comprised 126 males and two females.

A senator, Shehu Sani, called for total criminalisation of human trafficking.

The woman survived against all odds.

One of the Nigerian survivors narrated her experience.

About 5,000 migrants were picked up off the Libyan coast by emergency services.

The 92 migrants, most of them Nigerians, were rescued on Friday by an IOM team.

The migrant crisis has put Rome under “heavy pressure,” the mayor said.

The survivors said they had been left there by smugglers.

The returnees are made up of of 233 males and 25 females.

Of the 63 women now being held in the centre, more than two thirds are awaiting asylum request responses.

The sea channel between Italy and Libya is the world’s busiest and most dangerous sea migration route.

“At the moment, these things stand; it is not possible for the UK to unilaterally repatriate without our cooperation.”

Most of the dozen or so Gambian migrants interviewed by Reuters had been gone for more than a year.

The organisation said the figure was lesser than the 380 deaths recorded over the same period in 2016.

At least 363,348 people crossed the sea, mostly to Italy and Greece.