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In this aerial view, members of law enforcement investigate a tractor trailer on June 27, 2022 in San Antonio, Texas. According to reports, at least 46 people, who are believed migrant workers from Mexico, were found dead in an abandoned tractor trailer. Picture: Jordan Vonderhaar/Getty Images/AFP

Migrants

46 migrants found dead in tractor-trailer in Texas

By AFP

The grim discovery was one of the worst disasters involving migrants in the United States in recent years -- and came five years after a similar deadly incident...

  • Picture: Moroccan flag

    Morocco activists seek probe after 18 migrants die in surge to enter Spain

    The latest deadly drama on the doors of the European Union took place at dawn on Friday when around 2 000 migrants approached the Moroccan border with the tiny territory.

    3 days ago
  • Demonstrators hold placards as they protest against Britain's plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda, outside the High Court in London on 13 June2022. UK campaigners get their last chance in court to stop the government's first flight of asylum seekers to Rwanda, as protests mount against the policy. Picture: Niklas Hallen/AFP

    UK slams European court ruling on Rwanda as 'politically motivated'

    "You've got to look at the motivation," said Britain's interior minister Priti Patel.

    10 days ago
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    In Britain, LGBTQ migrants fear being sent to Rwanda

    Under a controversial law passed in April, the UK plans to send asylum-seekers deemed to have arrived illegally on British soil to Rwanda, an East African country 6,000 kilometres from London, starting in mid-June.

    19 days ago
  • An aerial picture taken on 24 June 2021 shows the Rio Grande river and border wall fencing at the US-Mexico border separating El Paso and the Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, Mexico, in El Paso, Texas. Picture: Patrick T. FALLON/AFP

    Higher wall, COVID policy make US border more deadly

    To the already imposing obstacles for people trying to enter the United States on its southern border, the COVID crisis added another: a quick-fix health rule called Title 42 that allows authorities to remove anyone simply because they might be carrying the disease.

    40 days ago
  • Operation Dudula supporters gather at the Olympia Park Stadium in Rustenburg on 27 April 2022 for the group's official launch in the North West. Picture: Masechaba Sefularo/Eyewitness News

    Operation Dudula vows to ‘entrench anti-illegal migrant’ ideology across SA

    The group launched its North West branch in Rustenburg on Wednesday just weeks after KwaZulu-Natal.

    62 days ago
  • Rwandan President Paul Kagame. Picture: @UrugwiroVillage/Twitter

    Hosting Britain's migrants: The view from Rwanda

    President Paul Kagame has sought to position Rwanda as a Western ally and firefighter for conflicts across Africa, sending thousands of troops to battle Islamic State-linked jihadists in Mozambique last year.

    68 days ago
  • Police monitor protest action in Diepsloot on 6 April 2022. Picture: Masechaba Sefularo/Eyewitness News

    SAPS sting operation in Diepsloot nabs 27 undocumented migrants

    These arrests take the number of people handcuffed in the area this week to over 50, while police continue to investigate the latest mob violence attack in which one man was killed.

    82 days ago
  • DBN cops arrest suspected undocumented migrants in surprise late-night raids

    The eThekwini Municipality, along with the South African Police Service, raided buildings in the Durban city centre on 30 March 2022. At least five people were arrested for not having valid migration documentation.

    89 days ago
  • Picture: Supplied.

    Two migrants drown off Morocco coast, more than 200 arrested

    The bodies of the two migrants washed up "after a boat capsized", MAP reported, without giving further details.

    92 days ago
  • ActionSA leader Herman Mashaba (left) holds a media briefing at the IEC results operation centre in Pretoria on 3 November 2021. Picture: Xanderleigh Dookey Makhaza/Eyewitness News

    ActionSA’s Mashaba: SA’s immigration laws not as rigid as they should be

    This follows an anti-xenophobia march by the newly-established Kopanang Africa on Saturday.

    93 days ago
  • FILE: According to the French authorities, 31,500 people attempted to leave for Britain since the start of the year and 7,800 people have been rescued at sea, figures which doubled since August. Picture: unsplash.com

    'A tragedy': Over 20 migrants died in Channel disaster

    The French interior ministry said in a statement that French patrol vessels found corpses and people unconscious in the water after a fisherman sounded the alarm about the accident.

    216 days ago
  • FILE: Migrants are escorted to be processed after being picked up by an RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution) lifeboat while crossing the English channel at a beach in Dungeness, southeast England on 7 September 2021. Picture: AFP

    More than 1,000 migrants cross Channel to UK in two days

    Rising numbers of Channel crossings by migrants in small boats have contributed to growing tensions between the UK and France following Britain's departure from the EU at the start of this year.

    261 days ago
  • FILE: Migrants in an inflatable rubber dinghy. Picture: @seawatch_intl/Twitter

    Morocco navy rescues more than 400 Europe-bound migrants

    Migrant arrivals on the Spanish archipelago have surged since late 2019 when increased patrols in the Mediterranean dramatically reduced crossings there.

    308 days ago
  • Hundreds of migrants find a safe port in Italy. Picture:@seawatch_intl/Twitter.

    Hundreds of migrants find safe port in Italy

    Tens of thousands of people seek to cross the central Mediterranean each year, normally setting off from Libya and aiming for the Italian coast, but it is a deadly journey.

    325 days ago
  • A makeshift camp for internally displaced Iraqis who have fled the ongoing conflict between pro-government forces and Islamic State group jihadists, in Ameriyat al-Fallujah, 30 km south of Fallujah, on 25 May 2015. Picture: AFP.

    Record 55 million people internally displaced worldwide

    This came despite strict restrictions on movement imposed around the globe in efforts to halt the spread of COVID-19, which observers had expected to push down displacement numbers last year.

    405 days ago
  • FILE: This image grabbed from a video taken on November 14, 2020 off the island of Lampedusa and handout on November 15, 2020 by the Italian Coast Guards (Guardia Costiera), shows a migrant clinging to a patrol boat of the Italian Coast Guards during a rescue operation after the capsizing of the migrants' boat. Picture: AFP.

    Thousand migrants land on Italy's Lampedusa

    The arrivals sparked calls from far-right politicians for urgent action, amid fresh tensions between Italian authorities and the rescue boats who operate in the central Mediterranean.

    415 days ago
  • FILE: US Vice President Kamala Harris. Picture: SAUL LOEB/AFP

    Kamala Harris to visit Mexico, Guatemala to discuss migrants

    Speaking with reporters in Washington, Harris did not say if she planned to visit the border herself, where she said President Joe Biden has asked homeland security secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to tackle the migrant surge.

    440 days ago
  • FILE: Foreign nationals in their makeshift shelters outside the Central Methodist Mission Church in Greenmarket Square in Cape Town. Picture: Kaylynn Palm/Eyewitness News.

    FACT CHECK: Are there really 15 mln ‘undocumented foreigners’ in South Africa?

    Africa Check takes a closer look at this recent claim by South African politician and businessperson Herman Mashaba.

    579 days ago
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