Coronavirus infections accelerate in Africa

By Tonny Ndungu,

The spread of the coronavirus in Africa has lagged much of the globe, but it’s picking up speed. Health authorities say the highly infectious virus ...

coronavirus

West African slavery lives on, 400 years after transatlantic trade began

By Reuters,

Blessing was only six years old when her mother arranged for her to become an unpaid housemaid for a family in the Nigerian city of Abuja, on the prom...

slavery , west africa , Women Trafficking and Child Labour Eradication Foundation

150 migrants die in shipwreck off the coast of Libya

By CNN,

At least 150 people have drowned after their boat sank off the coast of Libya on Thursday, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) confirmed. Around 300 peop...

libya , Mediterranean , migrants , UNHCR

Photo of drowned migrant triggers fight over Trump asylum clampdown

By Reuters,

A harrowing photo of a Salvadoran migrant and his young daughter who drowned in the Rio Grande at the U.S.-Mexico border became the focus on Wednesday...

Donald Trump , migrants , U.S.-Mexico border , United Nations

Thousands of women sold into sex slavery in China – Report

By CNN,

Thousands of North Korean women and girls are being trafficked and sold into sexual slavery in China, where many are sold as wives to Chinese men whil...

china , girls , human rights , KFI , North Korean , persecution , sex , slavery , sold , Thousands , women

Malta armed forces seize tanker hijacked by rescued migrants

By VOA,

A Maltese special operations team Thursday boarded a tanker that had been hijacked by migrants it rescued at sea, and returned control to the captain,...

Malta

Ship reported hijacked near libya by migrants rescued at sea

By VOA,

Migrants hijacked a cargo ship in Libyan waters Wednesday and forced the crew to redirect the vessel north to Europe, according to Italian and Maltese...

Hijack , libya , Ship

Driver hijacks, sets ablaze school bus in Italy, children flee unharmed

By Reuters,

A bus full of schoolchildren was hijacked and set on fire by its own driver on Wednesday in an apparent protest against migrant drownings in the Medit...

Hijack , italy , School Bus

Report: Government kept tabs on journalists, ‘Instigators’

By VOA,

The U.S. government ran an operation to screen journalists, activists and others while investigating last year's migrant caravan from Mexico, a San Di...

Journalists

US Adds Iran-backed militants in Syria to terror list

By VOA,

The U.S. Treasury Department added two Iran-backed militant groups to its official list of terrorists on Thursday. The Fatemiyoun Division, compose...

Syria , US

UNICEF: Children in conflict face grave rights violations

By VOA,

Violence and insecurity have forced more than 28 million children from their homes in 2018, UNICEF said in a news release Thursday. The U.N. childr...

Rohingya end hard year still in limbo

By VOA,

More than 750,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees who fled military attacks in Myanmar remain in Bangladesh camps as future repatriation and resettlement pla...

Bangladesh , Brad Adams , Chairman Ed Royce , International Criminal Court (ICC). , Kyaw Hla Aung , Rakhine state , ROHINGYA , Rosario Manalo , unicef

Abuse and ‘vilification’ of migrants on the rise as borders close

By Reuters,

Vilification of migrants as criminals, rather than people needing protection, by politicians and the media is making them more vulnerable to abuse, sa...

Donald Trump , E.U , Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui , Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban , libya , Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) , migrants , slavery , Trust Conference , UNHCR

‘If we go they will kill us’: Rohingya refugees fear repatriation to Myanmar

By CNN,

Rohingya refugees who fled a brutal army crackdown last year say they are terrified of going back to Myanmar, as authorities begin the process of repa...

Aung San Suu Kyi , Bangladeshi , Hassan Noor Saadi , Michelle Bachelet , Mike Pence , Mohammad Abdul Kalam , Myanmar , Rakhine state , ROHINGYA , UNDP , UNHCR

USA alone in opposing U.N. refugee text over sovereignty concerns

By Reuters,

United States of America (USA) was the only country on Tuesday to oppose an annual draft U.N. General Assembly resolution on the work of the U.N. refu...

Donald J Trump , Fillipo Grandi , Kelley Currie , U.N. General Assembly , UNHCR

Greece suspends police officer for swearing at woman

By Reuters,

The Greek police has suspended an officer and ordered an internal inquiry after a video showed him verbally abusing an elderly woman at a migrant camp...

greece , Greek police suspended , Police suspended

Congo accuses Angola of violent expulsions, Luanda denies

By Reuters,

Congo’s government accused Angolan authorities of violently expelling thousands of its citizens during a crackdown on artisanal diamond mining, but ...

african migrants , Angola , Democratic Republic of Congo. , President Joseph Kabila , spokesman Lambert Mende

Somali migrants speak of horror and abuse in Libya

By VOA,

It was an emotional moment for the nearly dozen Somali migrants who were repatriated to Mogadishu from Libya on Saturday. Some fell to their knees,...

African Union Commissions , Ahmed Abdikarim Nur , Bani Walid , International Organization for Migration (IOM) , Kufra detention center , libya , Mahdi Mohamed Guled , Moussa Faki Mahamat , somali migrants , Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo , Somalia's Deputy Prime Minister , United Nations Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) , VOA's Somali service

US Withdraws from UN Global Compact on Migration

By VOA,

The United States has informed the United Nations that it will no longer participate in the Global Compact on Migration. In 2016, the 193 members o...

Donald Trump , he New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants , US withdraws , US withdraws from Migration , US Withdraws from UN Global Compact on Migration

BWIRE: Refugees in East Africa urgently need government support and protection

By Victor Bwire,

There is an urgent need from Governments in the East Africa region and international players to establish protection and support mechanisms that will ...

Government of Ethiopia , human rights of refugees and migrants , Migrants moving across Weighing the Risks , political situation in South Sudan , United National High Commission for Refugees (UNCHR)