Police are no longer trusted by many immigrants On Friday immigrants and citizens marched with a petition of 38 demands to Motherwell police station, saying crime in the area is rising and going unchecked. Recent Eastern Cape crime stats appear to confirm their complaints. Immigrant shop owners say they are being driven out of Gqeberha […]
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Brussels — Aerial Surveillance Is Enabling Interceptions, Return of Migrants to Harm The use by the EU’s border agency, Frontex, of aerial surveillance to enable the Libyan Coast Guard to intercept migrant boats, knowing that migrants and asylum seekers will face systematic and widespread abuse when forcibly returned to Libya, makes Frontex complicit in the […]
The 27 migrants are believed to have died of “hunger and exhaustion” after they were “dumped,” according to Zambian police. One more person was still alive and taken to the hospital. Zambian police said Sunday that the bodies of 27 suspected Ethiopian migrants were discovered in an area north of Zambia’s capital, Lusaka. Police investigations […]
Madrid, Spain — Rights groups are pressuring Spain’s government over the deaths of at least 23 people after thousands of migrants forced their way through the European Union’s only land border with Africa between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla. In the worst tragedy on a European frontier in recent years, the migrants died […]
Immigrants are not reporting crimes or seeking assistance from law enforcement as they fear extortion or deportation Organisations working with immigrants say they have had numerous complaints of police extorting bribes and stealing from African immigrants. They say undocumented immigrants are too afraid to report such crimes; they are even too afraid to report any […]
Three migrants who had arrived at the Canary Islands from Nigeria will have to return home under stowaway laws, a police spokesperson has said. The men were taken to the hospital following their arrival. Three men ave arrived in the Canary Islands after an 11-day journey on top of the rudder of a tanker, Spanish […]
The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, has raised alarm over plan by 4,000 of its members to disengage their services in the country and migrate abroad for greener pastures. The association also expressed worries over government’s treatment of members, saying with government’s nonchalant attitude to members salaries, welfares and other deserved packages, the country […]
European interior ministers have held emergency talks on migration in the wake of a dispute between Paris and Rome over how to handle the thousands who continue to attempt to cross the Mediterranean. The numbers of migrants arriving on Europe’s Mediterranean shores haven’t yet hit the levels of 2015 and 2016. European capitals are nonetheless […]
Immigration authorities in Mozambique have deported at least 80 Malawians who went to the country without travel documents. Dedza Border Post Immigration Office spokesperson James Tambula said among the deported are minors and women believed to be victims of human trafficking. The deportees were on Tuesday at Dedza District Social Welfare Office pending return to […]
“We have labour shortage in the UK at the moment. But we have to balance that because we do not also want to be responsible for a massive brain drain from Nigeria. The British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Catriona Laing, has said that the number of Nigerians applying for visa to the United Kingdom have […]
The British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Mrs Catriona Laing, has said that the number of Nigerians applying for visas to the UK has increased in recent times. Laing made the disclosure on Sunday in Abuja. She noted, however, that the UK government was mindful of the situation and was in talks with the Nigerian government […]
Three years after the UNHCR protests, Bellville camp asylum seekers cling to dream of resettlement Three years after refugees started their protest outside the offices of the United Nations High Commissioner, 500 people are still living at Paint City camp in Bellville without proper sanitation. They still cling to the demand to be resettled in […]
Migration and displacement are seen as threats and losses, but climate mobility could be a positive adaptation strategy. While climate-linked migration and displacement (‘mobility’) feature throughout discussions at the United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference (COP27), they are not officially on the agenda. This is likely because climate-linked mobility is typically framed as a threat […]
Many relationships have suffered as people planning to leave Nigeria only inform their nearest and dearest once they’ve already gone. On the morning of 21 September, Kelvin, a Nigerian media professional in his mid-30s, woke to a WhatsApp message from his friend Lydia. “I’m in Kenya on my way to London and never coming back”, […]
Dakar, Senegal: The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR-WARO) for West Africa is hosting from 7 to 11 November 2022 a regional training of National Human Rights Institutions (NHRI) in West Africa on the monitoring of human rights in the context of migration. This meeting is part of the process […]
Adapting to a world that is warmer than today is a huge undertaking, even if the most ambitious temperature ceiling is met. Increasing climate risks mean that millions of Africans could be uprooted or trapped where they are due to climate change. Unfortunately, the world has made little progress on what it takes to adapt […]
The increased number of Ethiopians entering Malawi through its porous borders has sparked concerns among migration experts. Malawi’s porous borders are becoming major transit routes for refugees from other African countries such as Ethiopia, migration and human rights experts have said. Last month’s discovery of 30 bodies in a mass grave in a forest in […]
Well-managed youth migration can help Africa adapt to climate change and meet its development goals. Africa faces a trio of issues that are accelerating youth migration – the youth ‘population bulge’, high unemployment and mounting climate impacts. The ability of young people to move is an important adaptive response to all three. Youth migration can […]