Italian authorities said on Saturday that they had rescued around 800 migrants in the Mediterranean Sea. The Italian coast guard also retrieved two dead bodies. The coast guard used...

Migrant arrivals to Italy by sea fell by a third in 2017 compared to a year earlier, Reuters reports the Interior Ministry as saying on Sunday, as Libyan authorities...

The United Nations migration agency is stepping up the rate at which it flies migrants home from Libya, aiming to evacuate up to 15,000 in the final month of...

Nigeria’s president said today the government had started bringing stranded citizens home from Libya after a global outcry over reports that migrants there were being sold into slavery. Muhammadu...

More than 33,000 migrants have died at sea trying to reach European shores this century, making the Mediterranean “by far the world’s deadliest border”, the United Nations migration agency...

Nearly 100 refugees have died in the Mediterranean Sea over the last four days, including 26 women from Nigeria, the UN said today. Thirty-four bodies have been recovered and...

Refugees and migrants held captive by smugglers in the Libyan city of Sabratha are being held in deplorable conditions, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on...

Italian and other European vessels rescued more than 1,100 migrants in the Mediterranean Sea on Tuesday, a spokesperson for the International Organisation for Migration has revealed. Flavio Di Giacomo...

The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said yesterday that the European Union has resettled only 30,000 asylum seekers out of 100,000 it was due to accept. In a statement,...

The UN is renewing its attempt to improve the “terrible” conditions for migrants detained in Libya and provide further means to return those stranded home. According to Laura Thompson...

There have been no deaths of migrants in the Mediterranean Sea in last 20 days, the UN Migration Agency said on Tuesday. “Since 9 August, IOM, the UN Migration...

Spain witnessed a three-fold increase in refugees entering the country using the sea-route this year when compared to the same period last year, the UN migration agency said today....

More than 830,000 people — including nearly 140,00 families — remain displaced after the battle to retake the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, once a bustling city of over...

Three migrants died in the Mediterranean on Monday night, a German aid group said, during rescue operations in which thousands more were pulled to safety from rickety boats. #MigrantCrisis...

The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) is currently organising efforts to rescue around 200 mainly Somali and Ethiopian migrants it believes have been kidnapped and held and tortured in...

The European Union must do more to help protect migrants stranded in Libya and to convince its member states to share the burden of caring for refugees who reach...

Children make up 55 per cent of Mosul’s displaced, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) said. “More than 25,000 civilians have been displaced from western Mosul in the past...

About 800 people fell ill in a mass outbreak of food poisoning in a refugee camp in Mosul, Iraq

Libyan coastguards recovered the bodies of eight migrants from an inflatable boat found east of Tripoli on Saturday, with dozens of other migrants feared missing, a spokesman said. “In...

Rescuers saved 484 migrants from boats in the Mediterranean on Saturday and found the bodies of seven men who had died in the attempt to get to Europe, Italy’s...

Some 200,000 of Libya’s half a million internally displaced people have returned to their homes, a report by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has revealed. The majority of...

Growing numbers of African migrants passing through Libya are traded in what they call slave markets before being held for ransom, forced labour or sexual exploitation, the UN migration...

One hundred and fifty five Nigerians voluntarily returned home from Libya yesterday, after unsuccessful attempts to cross the Mediterranean meant they had been detained in the north African country....

Mayors from Libya’s desert south to its northern shores fear a deal between Tripoli and Rome to fund migrant holding centres in this north African country will simply shift...

Some 11,000 migrants and refugees have crossed the Mediterranean Sea for the safety of Europe since the start of the year until 5 February, figured by the International Organisation...

The United Nations refugee agency and International Organisation for Migration (IOM) called on the Trump administration today to continue offering asylum to people fleeing war and persecution, saying its...

The European Union needs to reach a deal with Libya to curb the flow of migrants trying to sail on smugglers’ boats to Italy, Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat...

A record 5,000 migrants are now believed to have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea this year, following two shipwrecks yesterday in which some 100 are feared dead, aid agencies...

Some 68,340 Iraqi have been displaced from the northern city of Mosul since the beginning of the Iraqi security forces’ campaign to retake the city from Daesh, International Organisation...

At least 365 migrants drowned in the Mediterranean in the last three days after six boats sank, the International Migration Organisation (IOM) said yesterday. Speaking at a press conference...

Swing said the organisation has enough tents on the ground at Hajj Ali for 300 families

At least 3,800 refugees have died in the Mediterranean Sea so far this year, making 2016 the deadliest year on record, the UN refugee agency said Wednesday. “We are...