African migrants rejected by Italy in a standoff with the European Union last week said they had been held by smugglers for up to two years in Libya and many had...

For the fifth straight year, at least 1,500 migrants have perished in the Mediterranean, with the route between Libya and Italy being the deadliest, claiming the lives of one...

Some 3,073 Tunisians have made the perilous journey from to Italy across the Mediterranean Sea since the start of the year, an official at the International Organisation for Migration...

The United Nations agencies for migration and refugees will present the European Union with a plan for “regional disembarkation platforms” around the Mediterranean where the bloc could hold migrants...

Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed yesterday dismissed Interior Minister Lotfi Brahem from his position and appointed Minister of Justice Ghazi Al-Jeribi to act as interior minister on his behalf....

The UN migration agency said on Wednesday that 46 migrants have drowned and 16 others are being presumed dead as they are still missing in Yemen’s shores. “Tragedy struck migrants...

Sixty people were killed and 52 are missing after a boat carrying illegal immigrants sank two days ago off the coast of the Tunisian islands of Kerkennah, the International...

Dozens of migrants have died from dehydration from the Sahara Desert’s scorching heat and thousands more remain stranded following a wave of deportations by Algeria. Last year Algeria launched...

More than 10,000 migrants in Greece have voluntarily returned home in the last 20 months, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said today. “More than 10,000 migrants returned voluntarily and safely...

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....