International Organization for Migration (IOM)

More migrants in Tunisia opted to be sent back to their home countries in recent months according to the International Migration Organization, amid rising anti-migrant sentiment and European pressure to curb migration. “Between January 1…
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The UN’s migration agency expressed alarm Friday over the discovery of a mass grave containing the bodies of at least 65 migrants in the deserts of western Libya. Earlier this week, Libya’s criminal investigations authority reported the…
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Nearly 400 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa have been repatriated from Tunisia to their home countries in recent days, the International Organization for Migration or IOM said. The IOM has facilitated “the safe and dignified voluntary…
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Around 61 migrants were missing and presumed dead after their boat sank off Libya’s coast, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Saturday, in the latest migrant tragedy off North Africa. The “large number of migrants”…
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A total of 30,705 undocumented migrants have reached the Canary Islands in the Atlantic in the first 10 months of this year, nearing a full-year record of 2006, data from Spain’s Interior Ministry showed on Thursday. The number of people…
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