Migrant boat capsizes off Cape Verde, over 60 feared dead – Senegal ministry
Dakar, Senegal Reuters More than 60 people are feared dead after a boat carrying mostly Senegalese migrants capsized off the coast of Cape Verde in the Atlantic Ocean. The boat left Senegal on 10th July with 101 passengers on board, and 38 people were rescued on Tuesday, Senegal’s foreign ministry said in a statement late […]
Forty-one feared dead in migrant shipwreck in central Mediterranean
Rome, ItalyReuters Forty-one migrants are thought to have died in a shipwreck last week in the central Mediterranean, Italian authorities and United Nations agencies said on Wednesday, citing survivors who have been taken to the Italian island of Lampedusa. Local public prosecutor Salvatore Vella and three UN agencies confirmed media reports that four people who […]
UN calls for regional solutions to curb record migration through Darien Gap
Panama City, PanamaReuters The United Nations on Wednesday called on countries to join efforts to contain the record-high traffic of US-bound migrants and refugees crossing the treacherous jungle region linking Panama and Colombia, known as the Darien Gap. Official data shows 248,901 people crossed the dangerous stretch between January and July, surpassing the record high […]
Number of displaced by Sudan war surpasses three million – IOM
Reuters The number of people uprooted by a conflict between military factions in Sudan that erupted nearly three months ago has surpassed three million, according to estimates from the International Organization for Migration. More than 2.4 million people have been displaced internally and more than 730,000 have crossed into neighbouring countries, data published late on […]
Greece scours shipwreck site; hundreds feared drowned in boat’s hold
Kalamata, GreeceReuters Rescuers scoured the seas off Greece on Thursday following a shipwreck that killed at least 78 migrants, as hopes of survivors dwindled and fears grew that hundreds more, including children, may have drowned inside the crowded vessel’s hold. Reports suggested between 400 and 750 people had packed the fishing boat that capsized and […]
“The fresh water is finished”: Drought drives economic exodus from Iraq’s rivers and marshlands
AHMED SAEED, ISSAM SUDANI AND TIMOUR AZHARI, of Reuters, report from southern Iraq…
US vs Europe: Tense contest to run UN migration agency opens
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters European countries and the United States are running rival candidates to head the UN migration agency in an unusually tense contest between allies that opens in Geneva on Monday. More than 100 million people are forcibly displaced around the world and the International Organization for Migration’s seeks to ensure humane and orderly migration, […]
Migrant shipwreck in Italy kills at least 59, including 12 children
Rome, ItalyReuters At least 59 people died, including 12 children, when a wooden sailing boat carrying migrants to Europe crashed against rocks near the southern Italian coast early on Sunday, authorities said. The vessel, which sailed from Turkey and was carrying people from Afghanistan, Iran and several other countries, sank in rough seas before dawn […]
Bodies of 27 migrants found in Chadian desert
Dakar, SenagalReuters The bodies of 27 migrants believed to have died of thirst have been found in the Chadian desert, the UN migration agency said on Tuesday. The migrants reportedly left Moussoro, a crossroads town in central Chad, 17 months ago on a pick-up truck, said the International Organization for Migration. “It is believed the […]
Climate disasters put plight of displaced in COP27 focus
Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt Reuters Issack Hassan lives in a migrant camp in Baidoa city in Somalia – one of more than a million people displaced since January after five successive failed rainy seasons. With Somalia in the grips of its worst drought in 40 years, “people became weak because of hunger, so we had to […]