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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 

NEWS
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
23
2024
By HORACI GARCIA and NGOUDA DIONE
Senegal’s fishermen head for Spain as fish stocks dwindle at home

Senegal’s fishermen head for Spain as fish stocks dwindle at home

NEWS
FISHERMAN Khalifa Ndour says Senegalese President Macky Sall is responsible for the plunge in his country's fish stocks that forced him to risk his life to seek work as a farmhand in northeastern Spain. Back home in Senegal, his wife Mariatou Mbodj misses her husband. She can't find work as a fish processor, and she and Ndour's three children wait anxiously in Bargny, on the coast south of the capital Dakar, for news of his progress in getting legalised in Spain. Ndour, 42, is one of tens of thousands of Africans, many former fishermen, making a perilous journey to Spain…
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Feb
19
2024
By The African Mirror
Returning sea migrants to Libya is illegal, Italy’s top court says

Returning sea migrants to Libya is illegal, Italy’s top court says

NEWS
ITALY'S top appeals court has established that sending sea migrants back to Libya is unlawful, a ruling hailed by charities and human rights groups. The Court of Cassation upheld the conviction of the captain of an Italian towboat, Asso 28, who in 2018 rescued 101 migrants from a rubber dinghy and returned them to Libya. The rescue took place in international waters about 105 km off Libya, the court said. Pregnant women and children were among the migrants, it added. The captain - whose name was blacked out in the ruling for privacy reasons - was sentenced to one year's imprisonment for…
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Feb
08
2024
By ALAN HIRSCH
South Africa needs to manage migrants better. That requires cleaning up the Department of Home Affairs

South Africa needs to manage migrants better. That requires cleaning up the Department of Home Affairs

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
LEGAL grievances against the South African Department of Home Affairs, including contempt of court cases, are depressingly common. Too frequently the minister has to apologise to a court, or to ask for more time, on behalf of the department. Most of the court cases involve the operations of the department regarding visas and permits for foreign visitors, immigrants and prospective refugees. Just a few months ago Home Affairs Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said, in legal papers: I would like to take this opportunity to extend my sincere apology to the Chief Justice, all judges of the high court and Constitutional Court,…
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Nov
26
2023
By The African Mirror
European countries tighten borders

European countries tighten borders

WORLD
THE European Union is dealing with an increase in legal and illegal arrivals by migrants, prompting some member states to temporarily re-introduce border controls within what is normally a zone of free movement. The bloc's Schengen rules allow such action "as a last resort" in cases that are deemed serious threats to internal security or public policy. These countries have reinstated stricter checks: * Austria introduced checks at its border with the Czech Republic in October, set to last until December 6. As of November, it extended border controls with Slovenia and Hungary until May 2024, citing pressure on the asylum reception system, threats…
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Nov
05
2023
By NGOUDA DIONE
Migrants say ‘Spain or death’ as Senegalese navy tackles sea crossings

Migrants say ‘Spain or death’ as Senegalese navy tackles sea crossings

NEWS
AFTER a fruitless 10-hour search in stomach-churning waves, the Senegalese navy patrol boat Walo had started its long journey back to port on Thursday evening when its radar picked up a neon blip - another vessel was moving fast through the dark seas. Its high nighttime speed raised the suspicions of the Walo's crew, trained to spot the differences between ordinary fishing boats and those filled with thousands of would-be migrants attempting perilous ocean missions each year to Spain's Canary Islands. The Walo decided to give chase. It took over an hour to get close enough for its infrared camera to pick…
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Oct
02
2023
By BORSO TALL
Western group to ask UN body to investigate Sudan atrocities

Western group to ask UN body to investigate Sudan atrocities

NEWS
THE Senegalese Navy said it had stopped two more boats carrying 262 would-be migrants late the previous night, taking the total to five boats intercepted and over 600 people rescued by a navy patrol boat since Thursday. Those rescued included 26 women and 13 minors, the navy said in a post on social media platform X, sharing photos of dozens of people on a patrol boat and others seated in rows on a quay. The successive rescues come during the busy summer season when thousands of migrants brave the hundreds of miles of ocean separating Africa from Europe each year in a…
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Oct
01
2023
By LAURA GOTTESDIENER, TED HESSON, MICA ROSENBERG and DAINA BETH SOLOMON
Migrants are being raped at Mexico border as they await entry to US

Migrants are being raped at Mexico border as they await entry to US

WORLD
WHEN Carolina's captors arrived at dawn to pull her out of the stash house in the Mexican border city of Reynosa in late May, she thought they were going to force her to call her family in Venezuela again to beg them to pay $2,000 ransom. Instead, one of the men shoved her onto a broken-down bus parked outside and raped her, she told Reuters. "It's the saddest, most horrible thing that can happen to a person," Carolina said. A migrant advocate who assisted Carolina after the kidnapping, who spoke to Reuters on condition of anonymity due to security concerns,…
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Sep
23
2023
By AHMED ELUMAMI, ABDELHADI RAMADI and MAYA GEBEILY
Libya floods sweep away migrants, and their hopes

Libya floods sweep away migrants, and their hopes

NEWS
THE small first-floor apartment in Derna became home away from home to Syrian migrant Ammar Kanaan after the risk of drowning kept him from attempting the dangerous Mediterranean crossing to Europe that has cost the lives of so many. After fleeing Syria two years ago to avoid military service, Kanaan had found a steady job in a pastry shop in the Libyan city and lived with two Sudanese roommates a few metres away from Derna's riverbed. But this month, the 19-year-old drowned with thousands of others when a flash flood washed away swathes of the city. Now, the plot where…
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