When Ethiopian migrant Jamal Hussein boarded a UN-run repatriation flight out of Yemen, he ended a journey through the war-torn country that he had hoped would take him to...

The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has described Yemen as a "dangerous place for stranded migrants" and has called to help immigrants "return to their homes safely". "Yemen is...

Around 60 migrants are presumed dead after their boat engine caught fire off the Libyan coast, reported non-governmental organisation Alarm Phone on Tuesday. The organisation added that on the...

The UN agency for migration Tuesday said it moved 140 Ethiopian migrants stranded in Yemen back to their home country, Anadolu Agency reported. "Today, a flight carrying 140 stranded migrants departed...

Over 150 migrants were freed from a Libyan detention centre after local authorities raided a secret prison used by people traffickers on Sunday, the Associated Press (AP) reported. Security forces freed at...

Some 600 families were displaced in Yemen last month, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) announced yesterday. "From 01 January 2021 to 30 January 2021, 593 households, about 3,558...

The Libyan Red Crescent yesterday recovered the bodies of four children whose boat sank at sea on Wednesday. Hassan Al-Bayi of the Libyan Red Crescent told AFPthat the organisation...

More than 150 Ghanaian migrants have been brought back from Libya through the first charter flight of its kind since COVID-19-related border closures, the International Organization of Migration (IOM)...

The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) on Thursday reported a devastating shipwreck that took the lives of at least 74 migrants off the coast of Al-Khums, Libya, Anadolu Agency reports. The...

More than 1,000 African migrants travelled to Yemen in October via sea smuggling routes, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) announced yesterday. "1,038 migrants entered Yemen," IOM said in...

The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) announced on Friday that more than 600 African migrants arrived in Yemen last September. This came in a report released by the IOM,...

Coronavirus border closures and restrictions have stranded nearly 3 million migrants around the world who want to return home but cannot, the UN migration agency said on Friday, adding...

At least 15 people died when rubber boats carrying irregular migrants sank Saturday in the Mediterranean Sea near Libya, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Anadolu Agency reported. Libyan...

The UN migration agency has said that at least 24 people have drowned or are dead in the sea off the coast of Libya. A boat carrying refugees on...

The Libyan Red Cross on Sunday recovered the bodies of 22 immigrants off the coast of Zuwara in western Libya, according to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). The...

In the last 48 hours, Spanish authorities have discovered the lifeless bodies of 20 people trying to reach the Canary Islands from Africa in rafts, Anadolu Agency reports. In August alone,...

Nearly 600 families have been displaced by heavy rains and flooding in one week across Yemen, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said. The IOM Displacement Tracking Matrix (DTM)...

Libyan authorities shot dead three Sudanese migrants trying to flee detention late on Monday, as they disembarked from a failed attempt to cross the Mediterranean to Europe, a UN...

Tens of thousands of migrants, mostly Ethiopians, are stranded in Yemen and at least 14,500 have been rounded up and forcibly transferred internally amid fears migrants contribute to the...

After losing his job as a house cleaner in Cairo, Sudanese refugee Abdel-Nasser Khamis has been struggling to pay his bills. It's a fate shared by tens of thousands...

Some 100,000 people have been displaced in war-torn Yemen since the beginning of the year due to heavy fighting and the coronavirus pandemic, the International Organization for Migration (IOM)...

The COVID-19 pandemic has worsened the already dire situation in Yemen for vulnerable communities like internally displaced people and migrants, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has warned. "The situation...

The 30 migrants slain by traffickers in Libya on Wednesday had been abducted while crossing the country in search of work and then tortured to extract a ransom, Bangladesh's...

Two UN agencies on Thursday called on Malta and other European countries to speed up efforts to bring to dry land some 160 rescued refugees and migrants from Libya,...

The United Nations International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said the number of migrants travelling from the Horn of Africa to the Arabian Gulf via Yemen has significantly decreased due...

Germany on Wednesday announced it has suspended its refugee resettlement programs due to the coronavirus outbreak and travel restrictions imposed to stem its spread, Anadolu reports. Speaking at a...

At least five irregular migrants were killed on Wednesday when their boat sank off Spain's Canary Islands, officials said, Anadolu reports. The boat carrying 12 irregular migrants was trying...

An air strike hit a migrant centre housing mainly African migrants in Libya

More than 24,000 irregular migrants and refugees reached Europe by sea since the beginning of 2019, the UN migration agency said Friday, Anadolu Agency has reported. Of that figure, 555 died...

International Organisation for Migration (IOM) revealed on Tuesday that thousands of migrants in the Yemeni areas under the Saudi-led coalition's control are facing dangerous violations. In a report published...

At least 30 Palestinians from Gaza were on board a refugee boat that capsized off the coast of Greece, Al-Quds newspaper reported yesterday. According to the paper at least...

The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) on Friday raised concern for detained migrants and civilians in Libya amid commander Haftar-led military campaign in the North African country, Anadolu Agency reports....