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At 8.18am on Friday 16 June 2017, the Libyan coastguard Col Massoud Abdalsamad received a long-distance phone call from an Italian coastguard official who told him that 10 migrant dinghies … Read More
Groups of men, women and children stepped off small boats and on to Mexican soil without showing their documents to anyone. Drivers quickly bundled them into taxis which sped past … Read More
The IOM’s Regional Director for East and the Horn of Africa, Mohammed Abdiker, also tweeted Tuesday that “grim pictures” of “children’s bodies ashore” have now emerged. A tweet from Abdiker … Read More
The Biden administration has struck an agreement with Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras to temporarily increase border security in an effort to stop migrants from reaching the US border. The agreement … Read More
Friar Oscar Omaringabo, from the Order of the Minor Friars of the Democratic Republic of Congo ‘I came to Sicily to participate in the feast of Saint Benedict the African. … Read More
Whenever Hsay Wah Thu Kree thinks about his favourite childhood memory, it makes him smile. “One day, my older brother gave me his unused old bicycle wheel rim, which made … Read More
They couldn’t work out quite where they were or where they were headed when the guards told them: “Keep going”. They walked forward, as instructed, across an unfamiliar bridge and … Read More
Thousands of children, most from Central America, are making their way to the border, many hoping to meet parents in the United States. But for those caught in Mexico, there … Read More
BUDAPEST — Ever since migrants from the Middle East, the Balkans and Africa began trickling over Hungary’s borders in early 2015, Prime Minister Viktor Orban has made a name for … Read More
E aster is normally when Calvin Lucock is gearing up for the arrival of British tourists but instead this year he is paying the hotel bill for migrants who have … Read More
They face a long bus ride before reaching their final destination, perhaps several. But after what Karina Aguirre and her two children had been through this last month to get … Read More
Bashir Ahmad Shirzay lived through wars in Afghanistan survived a harrowing journey to reach Europe and has no intention of taking a gamble with the coronavirus. He was among the … Read More
Khaled has been playing “the game” for a year now. A former law student, he left Afghanistan in 2018, driven by precarious economic circumstances and fear for his security, as … Read More
The U.S. will take steps to more quickly move hundreds of migrant children and teens out of cramped detention facilities along the Southwest border, President Joe Biden said. He was … Read More
President Joe Biden has pushed back against the narrative that his administration was effectively to blame for an uptick in migrant crossings along the US-Mexico border following his electoral victory. … Read More
