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Apr
11
2024
By The African Mirror
At least 38 migrants die in shipwreck off Djibouti 

At least 38 migrants die in shipwreck off Djibouti 

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AT least 38 migrants, including children, have died in a shipwreck off the Djibouti coast, the United Nations migration agency said. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said at least six other people were missing and presumed dead, and that 22 survivors were being assisted by the IOM and local authorities. Yvonne Ndege, regional spokesperson for the IOM, said the shipwreck happened about 200 metres off Djibouti and that the boat carrying the migrants had left Yemen around 2 a.m. local time on April 8. It sank about two hours later with around 66 people on board, predominantly from the…
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Mar
24
2024
By The African Mirror
Sixty-five migrants’ bodies found in Libya mass grave, IOM says

Sixty-five migrants’ bodies found in Libya mass grave, IOM says

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AT least 65 migrants' bodies have been discovered in a mass grave in southwest Libya, the International Organization for Migration said on social media platform X. IOM said in a statement the circumstances of the migrants' deaths and nationalities were unknown "but it is believed that they died in the process of being smuggled through the desert." Libya has turned into a transit route for migrants fleeing conflict and poverty to Europe across the Mediterranean following the toppling of Muammar Gaddafi in a NATO-backed uprising in 2011. In an unverified message on Facebook, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the…
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Dec
20
2023
By The African Mirror
At least 250,000 flee fighting in Sudan’s El Gezira state -IOM

At least 250,000 flee fighting in Sudan’s El Gezira state -IOM

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At least 250,000 to 300,000 people have fled Sudan's El Gezira state since December 15 as a result of clashes between the Rapid Support Forces and Sudan's army, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said. The RSF, at war with the army for the past eight months, has been advancing on El Gezira's state capital, Wad Madani, and its fighters entered the city earlier on Monday, witnesses said.
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Dec
18
2023
By The African Mirror
Sixty-one migrants drown in shipwreck off Libya – IOM

Sixty-one migrants drown in shipwreck off Libya – IOM

NEWS
SIXTY-ONE migrants, including women and children, drowned following a shipwreck off Libya, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Libya said. IOM, in a post on social media platform X, quoted survivors as saying the boat, carrying around 86 people, departed the Libyan city of Zwara, about 110 km (68 miles) from the capital, Tripoli. "The central Mediterranean continues to be one of the world's most dangerous migration routes," IOM said. Deadly incidents this year included one in June, when a fishing boat packed with hundreds of migrants sank off Greece after departing from Tobruk, Libya. The voyage, which was supposed to…
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Nov
17
2023
By MAGGIE MICHAEL
UN warns that food aid running out for Sudanese refugees in Chad

UN warns that food aid running out for Sudanese refugees in Chad

NEWS
FOOD aid for more than half a million refugees who have fled from Sudan to Chad will run out next month without extra funding, a World Food Programme official said. "By December, there will be no assistance," Pierre Honnorat, Chad's country director for the U.N. agency, told Reuters. "We are calling for urgent, urgent funding now." More than 540,000 refugees have crossed from Sudan into Chad since war erupted seven months ago between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), according to the International Organization for Migration. Many have fled from West Darfur, where ethnically driven violence…
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Apr
14
2023
By SONIA ROLLEY
Dozens raped as migrant workers expelled from Angola to Congo

Dozens raped as migrant workers expelled from Angola to Congo

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CONGOLESE women and children have been raped and subjected to other abuses during a mass expulsion of migrant workers from Angola to the Democratic Republic of Congo, a doctor, officials and the United Nations said. Angola has deported thousands of workers in recent months, U.N. figures show, echoing previous purges over the past 12 years during which abuses also occurred, according to rights groups and the United Nations. The size of the latest expulsion is not yet known, but 12,000 workers have passed through one border crossing near the Congolese town of Kamako in the past six months, according to…
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Feb
16
2023
By The African Mirror
73 presumed dead after shipwreck off Libyan coast

73 presumed dead after shipwreck off Libyan coast

NEWS
AT least 73 migrants were reported missing and presumed dead following a shipwreck off the Libyan coast on Tuesday, the official Twitter account of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Libya said. Seven survivors made it to shore from the boat, which was carrying around 80 people, who had reportedly departed from Qasr Alkayar, east of Tripoli, to head to Europe, the IOM added. So far, 11 bodies have been retrieved by the Libyan Red Crescent and the local police, while the seven survivors are in hospital, the IOM said. Libya has become a major launching point for migrants…
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Jul
28
2021
By The African Mirror
At least 57 migrants die in shipwreck off Libyan coast

At least 57 migrants die in shipwreck off Libyan coast

NEWS
AT least 57 people have drowned after a boat capsized off the Libyan coast near Khums, the latest tragedy in the Mediterranean where more than 1,100 have perished this year, the U.N.'s International Organization for Migration (IOM) said. Bodies have not been recovered from the shipwreck, but survivors included migrants from Nigeria, Ghana and Gambia, IOM spokeswoman Safa Msehli told Reuters. "According to survivors brought to shore by fishermen and the coast guard, at least 20 women and two children were among those who drowned," she said earlier by tweet. The migrants, the majority from West Africa, departed from Khums,…
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Jun
08
2021
By The African Mirror
Residents return to volcano-hit city

Residents return to volcano-hit city

NEWS
THE Democratic Republic of Congo will start a phased return of residents who fled Goma in the aftermath of a volcanic eruption that destroyed thousands of homes and threatened to overrun the city, the government has said. Less than a week after the initial eruption on May 22, which only just stopped short of the city limits, some 400,000 people scrambled to leave when the government warned underground tremors could cause a new eruption, or trigger the release of toxic gases. The tremors have since subsided, and many people have returned to Goma. About 245,000 remain displaced in nearby towns…
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Mar
28
2021
By The African Mirror
‘2,276 died trying to reach Europe’

‘2,276 died trying to reach Europe’

NEWS
MORE than 2,200 people perished at sea trying to reach Europe last year, more than a third on the increasingly busy route to Spain's Canary Islands, the U.N. migration agency has said. The true toll is probably far higher as aid groups reported at least five "invisible shipwrecks" that were never confirmed as they left no survivors, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said. In all, 2,276 migrants are known to have drowned while 86,448 arrived by sea in Europe in 2020, IOM said in a report. A further 52,037 migrants were intercepted at sea. "Of particular concern is the…
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