The UK has offered dozens of stranded migrants, held for years in a camp on a secretive UK-US military island in the Indian Ocean, a temporary move to Romania. After six months, they could be moved to the UK. Others…
Several people including child die trying to cross Channel
A child is among several people who died attempting to cross the English Channel on Saturday, a French minister said. French interior minister Bruno Retailleau said the child, believed to be around four, was “trampled to death in a boat”…
British PM, Sunak says nothing will stop Rwanda policy, migrants die in channel
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak vowed that nothing would prevent him from sending asylum seekers to Rwanda after parliament finally approved the divisive policy designed to deter migrants from travelling in small boats to Britain. Hours after the bill passed,…
Program that allows 30,000 migrants from 4 countries into the US each month upheld by judge
The Biden administration can keep operating a program that allows a limited number of migrants from four countries to enter the U.S. on humanitarian grounds after a federal judge on Friday dismissed a challenge from Republican-led states. U.S. District Judge…
Over 6m Nigerians displaced by insecurity, disasters – Commission
The National Commission for Refugees, Migrants, and Internally Displaced Persons (NCFRMI) has said that over 6.1 million Nigerians were displaced by insecurity and natural disasters. The NCFRMI Federal Commissioner, Alhaji Tijjani Aliyu, disclosed this during a visit to Gov. Dikko…
Man ‘decapitates dad before holding up head in YouTube video’
A man is accused of beheading his own father and showed off his severed head in a YouTube video. Justin Mohn has been arrested after his dad Michael, 68, was found dead at their home in Levittown, Pennsylvania. He says…
5 migrants die trying to cross English Channel in boat
Five people were found dead Sunday in another maritime drama involving migrants trying to cross the dangerous English Channel from northern France, authorities said. The deaths and the rescue of dozens of other people after a migrant boat ran into…
More than 60, including Nigerians, feared drowned in Libyan migrant shipwreck
At least 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 such tragedy off North Africa. The migrants are believed to have died because…
8 dead in Texas crash after police chase suspected migrant smuggler
Eight people died on Wednesday when the driver of a car suspected of carrying smuggled migrants fled police and smashed into an oncoming vehicle on a south Texas highway. The crash happened about 6.30am when the driver of a 2009…
Libyan border guards rescue migrants in desert near Tunisia
Libya’s Ministry of Interior on Monday said its border guards have rescued dozens of African migrants who said they had been deported by Tunisian authorities towards the borders. The migrants were found in the desert and taken to al-Assah border…