Italian coastal patrol vessels were searching the Mediterranean on Saturday for the bodies of 73 African migrants believed to have died.

Egyptian border guards fatally shot an African migrant and detained 14 others as they tried to cross into Israel on Friday, a security official said.

Two boats carrying African migrants to Italy sank off Libya in separate incidents over the past two days, killing at least 21 people.

Many of Wolfsthal's young people have been drawn to Vienna in search of work, leaving a dwindling, predominantly older population.

Researcher Joanna Vearey speaks about the link between international migrants' access to antiretrovirals and their ability to survive in South Africa.

The day Ali Reza stopped being a child his father told him to walk. The 12-year-old Afghan remembers it well because it was on that day that he left his country and was forced to become a man.

More than 1 400 would-be migrants, mostly Somalis and Ethiopians, have drowned off Yemen this year trying to cross the Gulf of Aden on rickety boats run by brutal smugglers. About 28 300 people leaving northern Somalia, mainly Somalis and Ethiopians, have made it to Yemen's shores on 300 boats this year.