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Authorities in southwestern Afghanistan were searching on Monday for 14 people missing in the desert after five other migrants trying to reach Iran died in severe heat, police said. The group had left more than a week earlier in Nimroz, one of Afghanistan's d…
Nigeria and Ghana condemned ongoing anti-immigrant violence in South Africa and want the issue of “Afrophobia” discussed at the next African Union summit, Nigeria's government said on Saturday. South Africa has faced weeks of protests and unrest targeting und…
South African police said they arrested 69 people after an anti-immigrant protest in Jeffreys Bay, in Eastern Cape province, turned violent, led to looting and left at least one person in hospital. Police said the protest was organised by the anti-migrant gro…
Nigeria said it has completed the evacuation of its citizens from South Africa, airlifting 1,490 people between June 10 and July 15 as anti-immigrant groups increased pressure on undocumented foreigners to leave. Foreign ministry spokesman Kimiebi Ebienfa sai…
Afghan residents in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa border province packed belongings this week or hid at home as police carried out what a senior officer called a large-scale crackdown on undocumented residents. Authorities in the northern province demolished…
Nine members of a 12-person Cuban canoeing team defected during a visit to Canada for a competition, a source close to the matter said Thursday. The athletes were taking part in the third Canoe Sprint and Paracanoe World Cup in Montreal. The competition ran f…
Two United Nations special rapporteurs condemned what they called the mass arbitrary removal of immigration judges in the United States and said the politicisation of immigration courts must stop. Margaret Satterthwaite, the special rapporteur on the independ…
UN experts voiced alarm on 16 July over reports that thousands of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa may have been subjected to arbitrary detention, collective expulsion and human trafficking on the Tunisia-Libya border and in Libya. The experts said they were…
Dozens of human rights organisations urged the European Union to suspend migration support to Tunisia under a deal they said was fuelling abuses. The EU signed the agreement with Tunisia in 2023 to provide financing intended to help curb small-boat crossings…
The United Nations warned Thursday that more than 500 people were feared dead after reports of two large shipwrecks off Myanmar since late June. The International Organization for Migration and UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, said in a joint statement that two…
Liberia repatriated its first group of nationals from South Africa on Wednesday, bringing home 17 people as anti-immigrant tensions remained high in South Africa, Liberia's foreign ministry said. The Liberians landed at Roberts International Airport near Monr…
Ten Ethiopians are believed to have drowned after a canoe carrying migrants capsized while trying to cross the Zambezi River from Zambia into Botswana, Zambian officials said Wednesday. Police and immigration officials said in a joint statement that 15 Ethiop…
US President Donald Trump criticized a Department of Homeland Security decision to pause Immigration and Customs Enforcement traffic stops after two fatal shootings in less than a week. DHS halted the practice after a Colombian man was shot dead in Biddeford,…
A US immigration officer fatally shot a man in Biddeford, Maine, on Monday, in the second such fatal shooting by federal immigration agents in less than a week. Rights groups identified the man as a 26-year-old Colombian. US media identified him as Joan Sebas…
Mexico said it was filing legal complaints in US federal and local courts over the killing of several Mexican citizens by US immigration authorities, while saying it does not seek conflict with the United States. President Claudia Sheinbaum said her governmen…
British media said a boat carrying 128 people reached the coast of England on Friday, the highest reported number for a single Channel crossing. The Home Office said 225 migrants arrived in England on Friday across three boats. The PA news agency and the BBC…
Tens of thousands of Zimbabweans have left South Africa in recent weeks after violent anti-migrant protests. South Africa has long attracted migrants, but the source said protests and deadly violence against foreigners have swept the country for weeks. Fringe…