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The Lebanese army arrested 134 migrants near the northern border with Syria on Saturday after foiling their attempt to take a boat to Europe, it said in a statement. The group of would-be migrants — made up of 130 Syrians and four…
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A rubber dinghy brings back dozens of people from one of six boats the Tunisian coast guard intercepted in a 24-hour period off Sfax, a migrant launchpad for Europe. “Our priority is to save lives,” said Mohammed Borhen Chamtouri, a…
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The number of migrants to have crossed the English Channel into the UK by small boat since 2018 reached 100,000 people this week, driven in part by refugees fleeing from Afghanistan and the Middle East. At least nine boats were…
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Hundreds of African migrants have been rescued from smuggling gangs and scores of their captors arrested as part of a security operation in southern Yemen. Authorities in Lahij province on Saturday launched a coordinated security…
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At least four migrants died and 51 were missing after a migrant ship sank off Tunisia’s Kerkennah island, a judicial official told Reuters on Sunday, adding that all the migrants onboard were from sub-Saharan Africa. The Tunisian coast…
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Italy’s coast guard on Saturday found one person dead following a migrant shipwreck off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa, Ansa news agency reported, as searches were still ongoing for two people said to be missing. Ansa said the…
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In the unbearable midday heat, a Libyan patrol near the border with Tunisia comes across a black African man collapsed on the reddish-brown desert sand. He is barely breathing, and officers try to revive him, gently, with a few drops of…
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When Mbengue Nyimbilo Crepin regained consciousness after collapsing in the desert, the sun had already set. Tunisian authorities had violently forced him, his wife and their six-year-old daughter across the border to Libya by foot without…
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The Gambia has repatriated 40 of its citizens from Tunisia overnight, a day after bringing home another group from Libya, a foreign ministry spokeswoman told AFP on Friday. The group, who returned to The Gambia voluntarily, left Tunisia…
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Five bodies of sub-Saharan migrants have been recovered in a desolate area near the border between Libya and Tunisia, Libya’s interior ministry said in a statement on Monday. The ministry said the bodies were found during patrols near…
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