Category: Africa


Lone survivor found floating alongside two corpses off the Libyan coast

A lone survivor of a boat wreck was found floating alongside the bodies of a woman and young boy 150 kilometres off the Libyan...
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Sudan: Children freed from traffickers join families

Sudan’s National Committee for Combating Human Trafficking (NCCHT) said on the 27 of July that it has managed to reunite 80...
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Gambian cashew exporter partners with returnees

Farimang Manneh, the CEO of a leading cashew nut export company in The Gambia, is using his success in entrepreneurship to set up...
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Italy renews friendship pact with Libya to block migrants

Italy and Libya agreed on 7 July to reactivate a 2008 friendship treaty, which allowed migrants to be returned to Libyan...
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At least 100 migrants missing off the coast of Libya

The bodies of three babies were recovered while around 100 people are feared dead after a migrant boat sank off the coast of...
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Gambian returnees organise caravan tours to tell of dangers of irregular migration

Mustapha Sallah is Secretary General of a group of migrant returnees called Youths Against Irregular Migration (YAIM). Sallah,...
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Italy’s Salvini visits Libya to talk about blocking migrants

Matteo Salvini, the Italian interior minister, has called for migrant reception centres to be set up on the southern borders of...
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Reintegrating returning migrants in Sudan

The International Organization for Migration (IOM), the UN migration agency, has reported helping 615 Sudanese migrants return...
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Nearly a thousand migrants returned to Libya by coastguard

Nearly a thousand migrants were rescued on 24 June by the Libyan coastguard, ten bodies were also recovered from the sea, AFP...
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