migrants

UK police will work with authorities in North Africa to prevent migrants leaving for Europe this summer, The Times reported on Monday. The move, which will see officers from the National Crime Agency operate in Tunisia, Algeria and…

The UK Home Office is launching an advertising campaign to discourage Albanian migrants from traveling to Britain illegally via small boats. The scheme, which will use Facebook and Instagram, is the latest attempt by British authorities…

A day after searching a stretch of the Mediterranean Sea, an Italian humanitarian group said on Friday that its rescue vessel found no trace of a boat said to be in distress and carrying 500 migrants, including a newborn. The vessel…

Tunisia has arrested a man suspected being the organizer of a ring that smuggled migrants across the Mediterranean, including an attempted crossing in which 20 people drowned, authorities said. The North African country, which lies just…

The bodies of 18 Afghan migrants who died while being smuggled into Bulgaria were returned to Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, on Wednesday, a spokesman for the Taliban government’s Foreign Ministry said. Bulgarian authorities discovered…

Mohamed Awad and Ahmad Omar, two ​​members of an organized crime group who smuggled over 40 Syrian migrants into the UK, have been jailed. The defendants both pleaded guilty to assisting unlawful immigration. Awad, aged 25, of London,…

The bodies of nine migrants from sub-Saharan African countries have been found in western Tunisia, near the border with Algeria, in recent days, a judicial official said on Wednesday. Tunisia, whose coastline is less than 150 km from the…

There is “no good reason” why the UK cannot train enough lorry drivers and fruit pickers among its own citizens to reduce immigration, Home Secretary Suella Braverman told the National Conservatism Conference on Monday. Britain’s…

More than 400 migrants have been rescued from a boat off Malta after an 11-hour operation, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said Wednesday after its ship responded to a distress alert. While heading to shelter in the Mediterranean due to bad…

Officials have reported that at least 29 sub-Saharan migrants have died in two boat sinkings off the coast of Tunisia. The migrants were attempting to reach Italy via the Mediterranean. This is part of a recent series of…