‘It’s a torment’: refugee tells how his family died in desert on quest for a future in Europe
Pato Crepin’s wife and six-year-old daughter were repeatedly pushed back by authorities in Tunisia, which has signed a €1bn deal with the EU ‘I had...
Category : Migration and development
South African anti-migrant ‘vigilantes’ register as party for next year’s polls
Operation Dudula changes tactics from evictions and violence, with plans to fight elections on platform of expelling foreigners An anti-migrant vigilante organisation in South Africa...
Five-month-old boy drowns in rescue mission off Lampedusa
Boat travelling from north Africa capsized near tiny Italian island, with all other passengers rescued A five-month-old boy has drowned during a rescue operation off...
Hundreds of refugees in Malawi rounded up and sent to camps
Army brought in to forcibly relocate refugees from the capital, despite pleas from human rights organisations Hundreds of refugees and asylum seekers in Malawi have...
Nigeria’s doctors furious over plans for five years of mandatory service
MPs back new bill for medical graduates, designed to limit brain drain to countries including the UK and US A new bill to impose five...
Conflict and climate disasters combine to create record rise in displaced people
War in Ukraine and Pakistan’s ‘monsoon on steroids’ among events driving surge on ‘scale never seen before’ as 71m people displaced The number of people...
Sudan’s neighbours have little to offer refugees, warns UN
Thousands of Sudanese are crossing borders into countries already severely stressed by drought, conflicts and food insecurity, say UN officials The UN is in a...
Home Office urged to reunite Eritrean family separated as they boarded boat
Appeal for UK authorities to bring over mother who was left in France after smugglers departed shore with her three children The Home Office is...
More bodies, thought to be of Ethiopian migrants, found in mass grave in Malawi
Bodies of four men, believed to be en route to South Africa, found less than a mile from where 25 bodies were exhumed in Mzimba...
Record numbers of people risking lives to cross Darién Gap to US
More than 150,000 fleeing poverty have reached Panama so far this year in pursuit of American dream The humanitarian crisis in Darién Gap has reached...
