Telavis, Israel — An abandoned boat containing the personal belongings and documentation of three Somalian citizens, but no people, washed up on Israel’s Mediterranean shore early Sunday morning, Israel Police announced. Authorities said they found the dinghy along the coast near Netanya. Police maritime units scanned the nearby area in hopes of locating the missing […]
Tag: Migration
Tunis/Tunisia — Interior Minister Kamel Feki, said, on Friday in Palermo that irregular migration is an “inhuman” scourge which should be addressed according to “a realistic, comprehensive and multidimensional approach.” «This approach must tackle the root causes of irregular migration rather than focus on its impacts,» he added in a speech he delivered during the […]
Niamey — On September 24, 2023, the 109th World Day of Migrants and Refugees will be celebrated. World Migrant and Refugee Day was established by the Catholic Church in 1914 and takes place every year on the last Sunday in September. This year, Pope Francis has given his message the theme: “Free to choose to […]
The European Commission president’s visit comes in response to an invitation from Italian Prime Minister Meloni. Italy’s right-wing government has urged the EU to help in the face of thousands of migrants’ arrival. European Commissioner President Ursula von der Leyen will visit Italy’s Lampedusa island on Sunday alongside Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, amid calls from […]
Brain drain among Ghanaian health workers has been a problem for time immemorial but it seems it has now become a phenomenon that must be addressed. We remember one of our stories published as recently as August 18, 2023 was about this matter. In that story, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) disclosed that it had […]
Nairobi — The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has lifted visa restrictions on Kenyans travelling to the Central Africa state. DRC’s Ministry of Interior, Security and customary Affairs made the announcement Wednesday through a circular note addressed to all airline managers. “The Directorate General of Migration informs you that from September 1, 2023, nationals of […]
Categories
Kenya Considering Visa-Free Travel
Nairobi — Kenya’s President William Ruto has said that the country is “seriously considering abolishing any visa requirement” in a few months. Mr Ruto stated that Kenya was the origin of humankind and, therefore, it was unfair to ask visitors for visas as they were coming home. “A few kilometres from where you are seated, […]
As today’s judgment in the Zimbabwe Exemption Permit (ZEP) matter makes clear, what is at stake are matters both of enormous consequence but also striking ordinariness. The judgment is of huge significance for the approximately 178 000 ZEP holders who have lived in South Africa perfectly legally for almost fifteen years, finding that they are […]
Cape Town — Saudi Arabia has denounced a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report accusing the kingdom’s border guards of killing hundreds of Ethiopian migrants since 2022. The migrants were reportedly moving across the border from Yemen, into Saudi Arabia. HRW reported on August 21, 2023, that the Saudi border guards had fired “like rain” on […]
Security forces in Saudi Arabia have opened fire on Ethiopians trying to enter the country via Yemen, Human Rights Watch says. The number of those killed could possibly be in the thousands, according to the rights group. Saudi border guards have fired small arms and sometimes mortar shells at Ethiopian migrants trying to enter the […]
Saudi border guards are accused of the mass killing of migrants along the Yemeni border in a new report by Human Rights Watch. The report says hundreds of people, many of them Ethiopians who cross war-torn Yemen to reach Saudi Arabia, have been shot dead. Migrants have told the BBC they had limbs severed by […]
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) says its commitment and collaboration with security agencies through intelligence gathering have helped address security threats from non-state actors in Yobe State. The retired Comptroller of Immigration Service, Yobe State Command, CIS John Dashe stated this during his pulling out Parade (POP) in Damaturu, the state capital. According to him, […]
Harare — At least 63 people are believed to have died when the boat they were travelling on from Senegal was discovered off Cabo Verde, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM). The wooden fishing boat, according to The Guardian, was reportedly sighted August 14 in the Atlantic Ocean near west Africa, some 150 […]
The Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) has warned the general public especially applicants to be weary of fraudulent invitation letters for recruitment into the service. The warning is contained in a statement issued in Abuja on Wednesday by the Service Public Relations Officer (SPRO) Deputy Comptroller of Immigration (DCI) Dr Adedotun Aridegbe. Aridegbe said that invitation […]
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has expressed concern that many young Nigerians are still ignorant of the dangers of irregular migration, also known as Japa syndrome. The Youth Focal person of IOM, Hajiya Aisha Dahiru, said this on Monday in Abuja during a road walk to commemorate the 2023 International Youth Day (IYD) organised […]
Harare — Tunisia and Libya will split the cost of housing hundreds of migrants who were stuck at their borders, many of whom had been there for more than a month, Al Arabiya reports. The migrants, who were mostly from sub-Saharan African nations, had been taken by Tunisian authorities to the desert region of Ras […]
There was pandemonium and confusion along the Badagry-Seme Expressway, yesterday, as Police officers believed to be under the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Special Squad arrested some Policemen and operatives of the Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, during a raid on illegal checkpoints on the Seme-Badagry Expressway. Vanguard gathered that the IGP squad chased and arrested […]
As mass emigration continues in the country, the Nigerian Diaspora remittances is expected to hit $26billion by 2025. This is even as the Nigerian Diaspora remittances is expected to eclipse $20.1billion it recorded in 2021, in the current year. According to recent 2023 Agusto & Co. report, it expects remittance flows into Nigeria to rise […]