Tag: MIGRANTS
Another 27 migrants in court over Malta riots
Twenty seven migrants who participated in a riot at their detention centre in Malta were on Wednesday charged to court.
The migrants from Sudan, Chad,...
Four Nigerians arrested for forcing girls into prostitution in Italy
Four Nigerians have been arrested by Italian authorities for alleged human trafficking and forcing underage migrant girls into prostitution, including through the use of...
11 pregnant women, 130 others return from Libya
No fewer than 141 Nigerians including 11 pregnant women have voluntarily returned from Libya with the assistance of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM)...
Nigerian migrants, others die as boat sinks off Libyan coast
More than 100 people, including Nigerians, have died in a shipwreck off the Libyan coast, Doctors Without Borders has claimed.
Survivors are being held in...
Femi Kuti reveals what he discussed with Macron
Afrobeat star, Femi Kuti, has revealed what he discussed with French President, Emmanuel Macron, who visited the New Afrika Shrine on Tuesday as part...
581 migrants, including Nigerians, rescued from Mediterranean
Spain’s maritime rescue service has said it saved 476 migrants, including Nigerians, who were attempting to cross the Mediterranean from Africa.
The migrants were pulled...
100 migrants missing in a shipwreck off Libya – Navy
The Libyan Navy on Wednesday said as many as 100 migrants have gone missing after their boat sank off the coast of Libya.
Libyan coastguard...
House fire kills 5 migrants in Mecca
A fire Wednesday erupted in a house inhabited by migrant workers in Saudi Arabia’s western city of Mecca, killing five people, a civil defense...
Nigerian migrants feared dead as traffickers’ boat sinks off Libyan coast
As many as 64 African migrants, including a mother whose surviving three-year-old child clung to her as she drowned, are feared dead after a...
Libya was hell – Nigerian returnees
Nigerian migrants expressed relief as they arrived home on Tuesday from Libya, describing the "hell" of harsh conditions in detention camps where they had...