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Jun
19
2021
By The African Mirror
Dozens of African migrants rescued after boat runs aground on Spain’s Lanzarote

Dozens of African migrants rescued after boat runs aground on Spain’s Lanzarote

NEWS
BORJA SUAREZ MORE than 40 African migrants were rescued after their boat ran aground on the rocky coast of Lanzarote in Spain's Canary Islands, emergency services said, while over 100 people on two more boats made it safely to other islands. At least three people died and at least two more were missing, including a six-year old girl. Rescue workers with a helicopter were searching the coast around Lanzarote's northern region of Muelle de Orzola for them on Friday morning. Local resident Marcos Lemes, who was first on the scene and alerted emergency services, told Reuters he had begun,g people…
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May
14
2021
By The African Mirror
17 migrants drown in shipwreck

17 migrants drown in shipwreck

NEWS
AT least 17 African migrants drowned in a shipwreck off Tunis as they tried to cross the Mediterranean from Libya to Italy, the Tunisian Red Crescent said on Thursday. The Tunisian coastguard had rescued two Nigerian women in waters off the southern town of Zarzis, Red Crescent official Mongi Slim also told Reuters. The ship started on Sunday from Zawyia in Libya with 19 migrants on board. Last month, at least 40 migrants drowned off Tunisia's port of Sfax south of Tunis. The United Nations said at least 300 people have perished in the central Mediterranean crossing this year while…
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Apr
06
2021
By The African Mirror
African migrants desert official camp in Spain

African migrants desert official camp in Spain

NEWS
BORJA SUAREZ DOZENS of migrants have set up a makeshift camp in Spain's Canary Islands, leaving an official, much larger camp where they said they had received poor food, scant medical attention and did not have enough showers. In the face of soaring levels of migration from Africa, authorities on the Canaries have resorted to housing thousands in converted former military facilities. More than 1,500 have been living in the Las Raices camp, a former barracks near the city of La Laguna on Tenerife for the last two months. "The camp is really bad," said a Senegalese migrant who gave…
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Mar
04
2021
By The African Mirror
Dozens of African migrants feared dead

Dozens of African migrants feared dead

NEWS
DOZENS of African migrants are feared to have died yesterday after smugglers threw them overboard off Djibouti as they were en route to Yemen, hoping to enter Saudi Arabia to find work. Their boat, carrying 200 migrants, left Oulebi in Djibouti at 2 a.m., according to Yvonne Ndege, spokeswoman for the U.N. International Organisation for Migration (IOM). But survivors said that, half an hour later, the smugglers judged the boat was overloaded and threw at least 80 passengers off, Ndege said. She said five bodies had been retrieved so far. Drownings in the waters off Eritrea, typically involving migrants from…
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Nov
14
2020
By The African Mirror
Twenty migrants drown in Libya shipwreck, fourth accident this week

Twenty migrants drown in Libya shipwreck, fourth accident this week

NEWS
EMMA FARGE  TWENTY African migrants are believed to have drowned off the coast of Libya when their boat sank as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Europe, while more bodies washed ashore on Libyan beaches on Friday from a shipwreck earlier this week. The latest shipwreck, a wooden boat that left from Surman in western Libya, is the fourth this week and brings the total death toll to more than 100 people, an International Organization for Migration spokeswoman said. Some of the survivors were from Nigeria, Gambia, Ghana and Burkina Faso. ​ Elsa Laino of Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF)…
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Sep
09
2020
By The African Mirror
Dozens of abandoned migrants rescued in Sahara

Dozens of abandoned migrants rescued in Sahara

NEWS
MORE than 80 African migrants have been rescued from the Sahara desert after they were robbed and left to die by people they had paid to smuggle them to Libya, according to the U.N. migration agency, citing survivors. Drivers abandoned four trucks carrying the migrants from Nigeria, Togo, Mali and Ghana with no food or water about 230 km (143 miles) north of the Sahara crossroad town of Niger's Dirkou after spotting military vehicles. Three days later, an IOM rescue team found the group, which included children, by chance on Sept. 3. Many were dehydrated, injured and in need of…
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Aug
19
2020
By The African Mirror
At least 45 African migrants die off Libya in worst shipwreck of 2020 -UN

At least 45 African migrants die off Libya in worst shipwreck of 2020 -UN

NEWS
AT least 45 African migrants and refugees have perished in the Mediterranean Sea in the largest recorded shipwreck off the Libyan coast this year, U.N. agencies said on Wednesday. The U.N. refugee agency UNHCR and the International Organization for Migration (IOM), in a statement disclosing Monday's accident, called for stepping up search and rescue capacity to respond to distress calls. "Some 37 survivors, mainly from Senegal, Mali, Chad and Ghana, were rescued by local fishermen and later detained upon disembarkation," the statement said. "They reported to IOM staff that 45 others, including five children, lost their lives when the vessel's…
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Aug
07
2020
By The African Mirror
People‌ ‌smugglers‌ ‌left‌ ‌empty-handed‌

People‌ ‌smugglers‌ ‌left‌ ‌empty-handed‌

HUMAN RIGHTS
EDWARD McALLISTER ANDRE Chani said he once earned thousands of dollars a month driving Europe-bound migrants from Niger's desert trading hub of Agadez to Libya. But in 2016, he said, police in Niger impounded his two white pick-up trucks as part of an effort to stem the flow of Africans onto European shores. So Chani, 44, applied for 2.5 million CFA francs ($4,511) in aid from a European Union (EU)-funded program to start trucking agricultural produce to neighbouring Algeria. He never heard back, he said, so briefly turned to drug smuggling to support his family. Now he scrapes by growing…
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Jul
31
2020
By The African Mirror
Half of violence against African migrants is by law enforcers, UN says

Half of violence against African migrants is by law enforcers, UN says

NEWS
CECILE MANTOVANI NEARLY  half of all the violence visited on African migrants during their journey to the Mediterranean coast is perpetrated by law enforcers, the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR has said. According to a report by UNHCR and the Danish Refugee Council's Mixed Migration Centre (MMC), thousands of refugees and migrants suffer extreme abuse including torture and sexual or gender-based violence, and in some cases death. The report is based on nearly 16,000 interviews with refugees and migrants. "In 47% of the cases, the victims reported the perpetrators of violence are law enforcement authorities, whereas in the past, we…
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