The mass deportation is part of a common pattern: North African governments ... live ammunition during interceptions at sea and of handing migrants over to violent militias.

The young widow was one of many of those left behind paying a low-key tribute to the country's migrants ... Around her, the beauty of the sparkling sea, colourful wooden pirogues and the deceptive ...

Wearing a long dress, Fatou Fall, 27, travelled the 80 kilometres (nearly 50 miles) north to Mbao from ... Families 'ignored' - Tragedies at sea involving migrants remain a taboo subject and ...

Greek authorities say 66 migrants have been found in two locations on the ... smugglers appear to be increasingly opting for the much longer and riskier Mediterranean Sea crossing from the north ...

On Sunday, an Italian Coast Guard rescued 130 migrants and refugees attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea aboard an ...

For decades, the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo has had a detention facility used to house migrants intercepted at sea, typically Haitians, Cubans and Dominicans. However, it has been mostly empty ...

Although climate migration ... sea levels. Regionally, this includes 86 million people in sub-Saharan Africa, 49 million in East Asia and the Pacific, 40 million in South Asia, 19 million in North ...

While the US has previously housed small numbers of migrants at Guantanamo, primarily those intercepted at sea, it has not been used in years for large-scale detention. The administration hasn’t ...

Of the five bodies in the fishing boat seen by oil workers off Trinidad’s east coast on Saturday, one was of a person who ...