migrants

In this episode, Eye on Africa explores the Hope Hostel in Kigali, where Rwanda is accommodating migrants deported from Britain. The first batch may arrive in a few months under a contentious policy. Meanwhile, Zimbabwe cracks down on black market money traders to stabilize the recently introduced Zig currency. Plus, we delve into the increasing presence of women in the Egyptian rap scene.

During tonight's broadcast: Rwanda could soon welcome migrants from the UK as part of a controversial agreement. Meanwhile, trade is rebounding at the Niger-Nigeria border, bringing relief to struggling importers. Lastly, we introduce Kenyan runner Eliud Kipchoge, who aims to win gold at the upcoming Paris Olympics.

In Senegal, a canoe stranded with about sixty illegal migrants outside Saint-Louis, in the northern part of the country. At present, the National Navy has been able to rescue eleven people, including eight Senegalese and three Gambians. A lifeless body was also found. The rest of the passengers have disappeared. A survivor testifies.…

About 394 migrants were rescued from a dangerously cramped wooden boat in the Mediterranean overnight by two humanitarian rescue ships on Sunday, in an operation that lasted about six hours, a Reuters witness said. The German and French NGOs (NGOs) send Sea-Watch 3 and Ocean Viking rescued migrants in Tunisian waters 68 km (42 miles) off the North African coast, near oil facilities and other ships. Sea-Watch 3, which took command of the operation, took 141 of the survivors while Ocean Viking took the…

At least 57 irregular migrants drowned in a shipwreck in the Mediterranean, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Monday. "A shipwreck off Libya requires at least 57 lives today after a boat capsized near the (port city) of Khums," SOMA spokeswoman Safa Msehli said on Twitter. At least 20 women and two children were among those drowned, Msehli said, quoting the survivors taken ashore by fishermen and the Coast Guard. Libya has become an important starting point for irregular migrants trying to…

In a report published on Thursday, July 15, the NGO Amnesty International denies the European Union's cooperation in the treatment of migrants and refugees in Libya. She describes their conditions of detention as "cruel" and accuses the EU of being responsible to the Libyan government for these human rights violations suffered by migrants captured in Libya. Details from Sofia Dagna, Refugee and Migration Administrator at Amnesty International France. .

A boat carrying migrants capsized overnight off the coast of Tunisia on Saturday, killing 43 people, the Tunisian Red Crescent said. About 84 migrants were rescued. Mongi Slim, head of the organization, told the Associated Press (AP) that the boat, which was carrying 127 migrants, left Libya's coastal city of Zuwara on Friday to cross the Mediterranean towards Italy. He said 46 Sudanese, 16 Eritreans and 12 Bengalis were among the migrants. Defense Ministry spokesman Mohamed Zekri said the 84…

In Ceuta, three people have died since the migration crisis started a week ago. A young man, who drowned on Monday 17 May while trying to swim to the Spanish enclave, was buried on Saturday 22 May. The other two were buried on Sunday, May 23. With our special correspondent in Ceuta, Magali LagrangeThe Muslim cemetery, near the…

A Moroccan boy who swam to Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta after Rabat relaxed his borders told a Spanish soldier that he would rather die than return home. "He did not want to return, he had no family in Morocco, he did not care if he died of a cold. He preferred to die ... than to return to Morocco," said Rachid Mohamed al-Sa Messaoui. The boy attracted international media attention when he floated in a dark T-shirt with plastic bottles under his clothes and clung to his arms and cried when he…

Following the transferring avalanche within the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, positioned in northern Morocco, Spain is making an attempt to regain management of the state of affairs. The socialist authorities introduced on Wednesday that 5,600 migrants have been returned to the border. There are nonetheless about 1,500 unaccompanied kids strolling the streets of Ceuta.…