The Yemeni government recently announced that more than 55,000 refugees originating from the Horn of Africa have arrived in the war-ravaged Arab country since the beginning of 2023. According to Yemen’s Minister of Public Health [Read More]
Tunisian coast guards have retrieved 58 bodies of immigrants and rescued 1,242 survivors in the past 48 hours off the country’s coasts, Tunisian National Guard said Tuesday. The batch of survivors includes 1,207 from sub-Saharan [Read More]
A total of 93 undocumented immigrants were rescued off Tunisian coasts while attempting to cross the Mediterranean to Italy, Tunisian National Guard said Sunday. “As part of the fight against illegal immigration, three such attempts [Read More]
– Romanian border police on Tuesday apprehended 52 migrants at a border crossing in western Romania as they attempted to enter the Schengen area hidden in a trailer truck loaded with metal profiles. According to [Read More]
The Turkish Coast Guard said in a statement on Wednesday that it has rescued 77 illegal migrants off the country’s western Aegean coast. These illegal migrants, who were found in a rubber boat off the [Read More]
Portugal’s Council of Ministers on Thursday approved the establishment of the Portuguese Agency for Minorities, Migrations and Asylum, which will replace the Foreigners and Borders Service (SEF) and the High Commission for Migrations. The agency [Read More]
Washington’s “porous” border policies will cost New York taxpayers a total of 9.9 billion U.S. dollars in 2023, according to a watchdog report quoted by the New York Post. According to The Fiscal Burden of [Read More]
Interior ministers of five European Union (EU) Mediterranean countries on Saturday called for more EU solidarity on migration and more efforts to prevent irregular migration. At the end of the so-called “Med 5” ministerial-level meeting [Read More]
Nearly 42,000 Syrian refugees in Türkiye have voluntarily returned to their homeland following the massive earthquakes that caused tremendous destruction in the region, Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said on Tuesday. The Syrians, who were [Read More]
The death toll from Sunday’s sinking of a migrant ship approaching the Italian shore rose to 62 on Monday, including 14 children, local media reported. Local authorities said that at least 80 people have been [Read More]
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