An overloaded Haitian cargo boat bound for the United States had already motored through Cuban waters towards the Florida Keys when the vessel reportedly began taking on water and was forced to return to Cuba on Tuesday. According to the …
Greece said it has prevented about 600 migrants from crossing the Aegean Sea into its territorial waters from Turkey. A spokesman for the Greek coastguard said that five sailboats and four dinghies had set off from the Turkish coast early …
Turkey has called for a joint international cooperation to coordinate efforts to tackle the unprecedented refugee crises. “Migration is a global challenge and Turkey is hosting the world’s largest refugee population since 2014,” Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said. In …
The United Kingdom has scheduled the transfer of the first batch of asylum seekers to Rwanda in the coming days amid criticisms from refugee rights organizations and activists. According to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, the UK government had informed …
The Tunisian coast guard rescued 49 illegal immigrants from different African countries on Wednesday after their boat sank off the coast. 23 women were among the rescued immigrants, who were on a broken boat five miles off El Awabed in …
Iraq and the European Union have discussed issues surrounding illegal immigration and agreed to accelerate efforts to curb the smuggling networks. Iraqi Minister of Foreign Affairs Fuad Hussein met with European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson, and both sides …
Spanish authorities said several migrants are missing and feared dead after discovering a dinghy adrift in the Atlantic Ocean on Monday.Spain’s coast guard said they rescued 13 people on board the vessel in rough seas near the Canary Islands. According …
The Turkish naval forces on Friday rescued 17 irregular migrants who were drifting in a boat off the Libyan coast. The Turkish Defense Ministry said that the migrant’s vessel disconnected the seashore of the Libyan metropolis in the city of …
Hacktivist group Anonymous leaked on Monday 82 gigabytes of confidential emails belonging to the Nauru Police Force. The hackers’ group made public 285,635 confidential emails to protest against the alleged abuse of the Nauru Police toward asylum seekers in Nauru, …
Mexican authorities have cleared out a migrant camp in Reynosa across the United States border in Texas. Sister Norma Pimentel, executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley, said that 400 migrants “willingly” left the camp on Monday. …
