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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…

As many as 300 migrants may have died after a ship recently capsized off the coast of Yemen, highlighting the dangers of a long migration route from the Horn of Africa to the rich Gulf states in search of work, a UN official said on Thursday. UN resident and humanitarian coordinator David Gressly said the immigration crisis was increasing the pressure on an already serious humanitarian situation in Yemen. Gressly made his comments during a webinar sponsored by the National Council on US-Arab relations. It came just a…

An overloaded boat was destroyed on Wednesday, May 26, in northwestern Nigeria. Authorities fear most passengers have drowned. In a statement, President Muhammadu Buhari called the accident "frightening" and insisted his condolences to the families. The boat came from the Niger state in central Nigeria and was on its way to…

Tunisian authorities say more than 50 migrants have drowned off the coast of the North African country, while 33 others were rescued by workers from an oil rig. Tunisia's Defense Ministry spokesman Mohamed Zekri said on Tuesday that a boat carrying migrants sank off Sfax on the southeast coast of Tunisia on Monday. He said naval units were sent to search the water for missing passengers. Flavio Di Giacomo, a spokesman for the Mediterranean Organization for Migration's Mediterranean Coordination…

Customs duties on this disaster, which took place on Wednesday 23 December on this border lake between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda, have been revised upwards. We are now talking about 41 corpses found in the lake. as reported from Kinshasa, Commander Muzembe Commander41 bodies were recovered from Lake Albert…

A pirog turned on Lake Albert on Wednesday as it traveled with its passengers from the DRC to Uganda. Several people died. Several people have died and others are missing after a shipwreck that occurred at Lake Albert on Wednesday. A pirog turned around as he traveled with his passengers from the DRC to Uganda to buy or sell…

The shipwrecked migrants we spoke to explained that if they try such a dangerous crossing, it is partly due to their terrible living conditions in Libya, where they risk all kinds of abuse. Libya cannot be considered a safe haven. Migrants caught at sea and returned there are immediately placed in detention centers, where the UN has documented its catastrophic living conditions: extreme poverty, risk of kidnapping, human trafficking ... Under international law, migrants rescued at sea must be taken…

On the threat of their lives, hundreds of migrants are nonetheless often attempting to cross the Mediterranean from Africa. Exterior Tunisia, coastguards have intercepted 40 boats over the previous week. And on Sunday, a tragedy claimed the lives of 21 folks from sub-Saharan Africa. Their boat sank whereas attempting to achieve Italy. Among the many victims are many Ivorians, together with a mom and…