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The Coast Guard handed 63 of 66 migrants to the Dominican Navy after stopping an overloaded boat off Puerto Rico. Three remain in federal custody. The post US Coast Guard Repatriates 63 Migrants appeared first on The Rio Times.
Dominican migration agents found close to 700 irregular foreigners on farms in six provinces on 15 and 16 October, about 520 of them at one tomato farm. The post Dominican Checks Find Nearly 700 Migrants appeared first on The Rio Times.
Two separate boat incidents off the Greek islands of Lesbos and Samos left 12 migrants dead.
This October marks 10 years since French police dismantled the notorious Calais "Jungle" camp. FRANCE 24's Claire Paccalin returns to the region to explore what has changed for migrants over the past decade. She joins Annette Young and Dr Marissa Quie of Cambridge University to discuss migration routes and their growing role in European political debate.
Al Jazeera’s Al Anoud Al Aqeedi explains why migrants are risking their lives to make the journey to Yemen.
Spain’s King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia visited Ceuta for the first time in 14 years on Tuesday, as the North African enclave grapples with the aftermath of a mass migrant influx. Authorities have cleared makeshift camps from the beaches ahead of the visit, amid strained relations with neighbouring Morocco.
At least 139 migrants died, including 15 children and 84 went missing when an overcrowded boat sank on its way from Djibouti to Yemen on the night between October 8 and 9. The International Organization for Migration said most of the people were Ethiopian when the vessel capsized off north of the town of Obock. Details by Morgan Ayre.
A decree dated 8 October lets migrants who drop an asylum claim, or had one rejected, seek permanent residency. Nearly 30,000 claims are pending. The post Uruguay Opens Residency Route as 30,000 Await Asylum appeared first on The Rio Times.
At least 139 migrants died, including 15 children, and 84 went missing when an overcrowded boat sank while heading from Djibouti to Yemen, a UN agency said on Sunday. The vessel was carrying 305 people, most of them Ethiopian, when it capsized north of the Djibouti town of Obock on the night of October 8-9, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said in a statement. “Survivors told me that the boat started to sink backwards as soon as they got in it,” Alexandre Coissac, IOM chief of...
People in Ceuta allege they were mistreated by Spanish soldiers after authorities cleared migrant camps.
Thousands of Ethiopian migrants are facing a humanitarian crisis in Djibouti, with food and water running dangerously low along the treacherous route to Yemen.
A joint report by Colombia's and Ecuador's human rights ombudsmen finds new gangs using drones to watch and extort migrants at the main border crossing. The post Colombia Finds Drones Spying on Migrants, 24% Extorted appeared first on The Rio Times.
A US Coast Guard cutter saved 61 migrants off the Dominican Republic, while 10 people from an earlier wreck near Mona Island are still missing. The post US Coast Guard Saves 61 Migrants Off Dominican Republic appeared first on The Rio Times.
In tonight's edition, Ethiopia's leader Abiy Ahmed secures another term, but his country is sliding back into conflict. Also, several major cities across Senegal are battered by torrential rains. And some of the migrants being deported from the US fear the return to countries criminalizing homosexuality.
Six people smugglers are found guilty of involuntary homicide after 31 migrants died in the English Channel in 2021.
Thirty-one migrants died when their boat went down in November 2021. The trial found that the guilty men were part of two smuggling networks.
At least two people, one of them a child, died and six went missing after a dramatic shipwreck off the Tunisian coast, near the Gulf of Gabes, according to the European non-profit humanitarian organisation Sea-Watch on Tuesday