Beirut — UN Eminent Experts Group Should Investigate Alleged Houthi Abuses Scores of migrants burned to death in Yemen on March 7, 2021, after Houthi security forces launched unidentified projectiles into an immigration detention center in Sanaa, causing a fire, Human Rights Watch said today. Hundreds of surviving migrants, mostly Ethiopians who were protesting their […]
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Rwandans who were deported from Uganda are appealing for support to have access to their businesses and properties abandoned in the neighbouring country. Five Rwandans were on Friday morning, dumped at Kagitumba border post by Uganda’s Ministry of Internal Affairs, following lengthy detentions, mostly in ungazetted facilities. Two of them said that they had businesses […]
After establishing that the July 2005 massacre of more than 50 West African migrants was perpetrated by state authorities, Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission has exposed the government’s cover-up that followed. No one from the entire security sector of the country was spared. On July 23, 2005, eight bodies who appeared to have been […]
There have been several sporadic attacks on foreign vendors and their tented stalls in Durban since November, when scores were expelled from the popular Church Walk fleamarket, next to The Workshop shopping centre, by a group calling themselves the Umkhonto weSizwe Military Veterans Association Freedom Fighters. Unconfirmed rumours of imminent, large-scale and coordinated attacks on […]
Time is running out for over 300 Zimbabwean refugees who have been living in Botswana, after fleeing their home country during the violent 2008 presidential election. After losing a bid to remain in the country last week, the refugees now have until today (Sunday, February 28) to register for voluntary repatriation or face forceful deportation […]
Two immigrant street vendors in Durban were hospitalised after they were brutally attacked by a group of men on Monday. The assailants set alight stall tables and merchandise. The SA Human Rights Council has condemned the xenophobic attacks. Last week we reported on another attack in which witnesses claimed two men were beaten to death, […]
The United Kingdom has announced approval for international students, including Nigerians, who want to work in England after a successful completion of a UK degree at bachelor’s degree-level or above, or an eligible professional qualification. UK government announced that the graduates could look for work after their studies for a maximum period of two years […]
The United States Consulate General in Lagos has unveiled its newly expanded and renovated consular pavilion that seeks to improve the experience that visa applicants and American citizens in Nigeria. Speaking during the ribbon-cutting ceremony, United States Consul General, Claire Pierangelo, noted that the renovated consular pavilion would provide a new safe space for visa […]
Lagos — The United States Consulate General in Lagos has unveiled its newly expanded and renovated consular pavilion, which seeks to improve the experience that visa applicants and American citizens in Nigeria receive. The expansion and renovation of the consular pavilion also seeks to address the new realities of the COVID-19 where it will provide […]
At least 20 people have drowned after smugglers threw dozens of migrants overboard as they sailed from Djibouti to Yemen, UN migration agency IOM said on Thursday. This is the third such incident in the Gulf of Aden in the last six months, according to the International Organization for Migration, which said that survivors are […]
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has deployed a technology Migration Information Data Analysis System (MIDAS) to enable it monitor the Nigerian borders from its headquarters in Abuja. According to the Comptroller General of NIS, Muhammad Babandede, the newly commissioned data communication, command and control centre at the immigration headquarters will improve border security and facilitate […]
Addis Ababa — “Many of my clients are sex workers. Usually, they don’t talk freely about their job because it’s a taboo. But when they come here, they tell their stories.” Yenenesh Tilahun was 22 years old when she left Ethiopia in search of a better-paid job to support her family. She first worked on […]
Addis Ababa — Thousands of female migrants returned to Ethiopia from the Gulf last year and some are risking violence and trafficking as sex workers Some 15,000 women migrants have returned to Ethiopia since April 2020 Often penniless, some returnees have become sex workers Charities warn sex workers risk trafficking and violence As an Ethiopian […]
In November 2020, fighting in the Tigray region of Ethiopia destroyed a secondary school which opened in 2018 in the Hitsats refugee camp. The school was attended by both refugees and Ethiopians. Hitsats was opened in 2013 to accommodate Eritrean refugees. In 2018, it housed over 15,000 refugees, nearly half under the age of 18. […]
Refugee resettlements in 2020 reached historic lows despite record-high numbers of displaced people in need. At the same time, substantial funding gaps remain. This is increasing pressure on African host countries, exposing refugees to enhanced risks and driving irregular migration. In 2020, only 22 770 refugees out of 79.5 million displaced people were resettled by […]
The Ocean Viking rescue ship with its cargo of 422 migrants has docked in the Sicilian port of Augusta as health checks are being carried out. Eight of the migrants on board have tested positive to Covid-19 and will be the last to disembark after having been placed in isolation to avoid the spread of […]
Nairobi — The government on Thursday extended the deadline for replacing the old passport with the biometric version unveilved in August 2017 to December 31. In a statement to newsrooms, the interior ministry said the move is meant to cover the time lost since since March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic which triggered the […]
Away from home, migrants in South Africa have been hard hit by the impact of Covid-19 and a resurgence of xenophobia. Chioma Umeh, who comes from Nigeria, runs a tuck shop in Hillbrow, Johannesburg. Every day, she leaves home by 8am and heads to her shop, which is less than 15 minutes away, to start […]