Refugee crisis

Hundreds of migrants tried to force themselves into a small Spanish enclave that shares a border with Morocco on the Mediterranean coast. Spanish border forces had been alerted around 5:30 a.m. by their Moroccan counterparts that "a group of 350 sub-Saharan Africans" were trying to scale the fence near the Barrio Chino border post in the Spanish enclave of Melilla, prompting the Guardia Civil Police to deploy a helicopter to divert them. "No one came over," the spokesman said, speaking on condition of…

Hundreds of migrants attempting the treacherous sea crossing from Africa to Europe were in distress when their makeshift boats ran into trouble. The Moroccan navy has rescued 438 migrants since Thursday, state media reported. Most of the migrants come from sub-Saharan Africa and received first aid before being taken to the nearest Moroccan port, an officer told the state news agency MAP late Monday. Earlier this month, a merchant ship rescued 33 migrants who had spent two weeks in the Atlantic on…

About 8,000 immigrants, an unprecedented influx at a time of high tension between Spain and Morocco, slipped into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in northern Africa in two days, Spanish authorities said. They reached the enclave by swimming or by walking at low tide from beaches a few kilometers south, some with inflatable swimming rings and inflatable boats. Moroccan migrants climb a…

The joint efforts of the Turkish navy and the Libyan coast guard rescued at the very least 123 irregular migrants outdoors the Libyan capital Tripoli, navy sources stated on Sunday. Throughout a mission north of Libya, the Turkish naval ship TCG Gaziantep acquired a demand assist from an inflatable boat transporting the irregular migrants virtually 129 kilometers from Tripoli on Thursday. After the Turkish mission group command supplied the essential data in regards to the boat to native authorities,…

The distinguished French NGO (SOS Mediterranee) mentioned its search and rescue ships rescued greater than 230 migrants from two inflatable boats off the coast of Libya on Tuesday. "Right this moment, #OceanViking rescued 236 folks from two crowded inflatable boats in misery in worldwide waters, 32 NM (nautical miles) off Zawiyah, Libya," the NGO mentioned on Twitter. "A number of survivors have been weak, dehydrated and recovering now. Girls are struggling minor burns and have inhaled fumes. 114…

Tribal violence in Sudan's western Darfur region has displaced more than 1,800 people who have fled across the border into the nearby Central African nation of Chad in the past week, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said. The majority of refugees are women, children and senior citizens who have fled villages near the border since the violence broke out on April 3, said Babar Baloch, a spokesman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Some refugees have been…

Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi has made his first trip abroad since taking office in February and arrived in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Tuesday to discuss a wide range of issues with the North African country's interim prime minister. Draghi held talks with Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah and followed in the footsteps of other European leaders who recently met with Libya's new caretaker government, which took power last month to unite the country, which has been divided by civil war for nearly a decade.…

The storm in February is unforgivable and violently shakes humanitarian rescue ships as they try to revive a faulty engine and rescue African migrants drifting in the Mediterranean after fleeing Libya on unsafe boats. Not only must the brave 70 km / h winds and 4 meter (13 foot) waves, but also win the race against the Libyan Coast Guard, which has been trained and equipped by Europe to keep migrants away from its shores. In recent days, Libyans had already countered eight rescue attempts by the Open…