The EU is considering fielding a naval force to deal with increasingly deadly Mediterranean crossings, but the plan would have to favour with the UN.
Migrants give chilling testimonies of abuses committed by smugglers and armed groups in Libya.
A proposal to divide up numbers between EU states in the wake of the Mediterranean crisis could pit Germany, which backs the scheme, against the UK.
They must either live in misery or risk death by leaving a country that is in the grip of a highly repressive regime.
Many migrants do not see the recent attacks as xenophobia per se and blame them on poverty.
At least 14 people have died and 200 rescued after a boat reportedly capsized in the Mediterranean, some 160km south of the island of Lampedusa.
Women migrants have carved out a peculiar niche in the strangeness of the city of Johannesburg – a part of it, but also apart
African asylum seekers have demonstrated outside Western embassies in Tel Aviv in a second day of mass protests against Israel’s immigration policies.
Italy’s navy has rescued the migrants from boats trying to reach Europe in a special operation launched after the Lampedusa disaster.
Israel’s right-wing government has cracked down on migrants, seeing them as a threat to public order.
While the continent’s leaders fight to protect the elite, their people are fleeing – and dying, writes Percy Zvomuya.
Dozens of migrants from Niger heading for Algeria have died of thirst in the Sahara desert after their vehicle broke down, say local officials.
Another boat carrying African migrants sank on Friday near the south of Sicily, with more than 30 people found dead.
The EU’s Jose Manuel Barroso has pledged to rebuild Italian refugee centres after the migrant shipwreck on Italy’s shores that claimed 302 people.
More than 100 people drowned and over 200 were unaccounted for after a boat packed caught fire and sank off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa.
Young migrants have become powerful agents of change and development.
The financial crisis in Europe has brought an influx of Portuguese migrants to Mozambique, creating employment opportunities in the process.
Survivors of a dinghy tragedy that left 63 migrants dead have accused the Nato member states of failing to come to the aid of people in danger.
Israel has reached an agreement to send thousands of African migrants to an unidentified country, a plan that has elicited criticism and concern.
New research on education rights of refugees and immigrants reveals widespread violations.
Two migrants were allegedly killed and several injured at a refugee centre in Pretoria earlier this week during a stampede, according to witnesses.
Almost everyone on an ship carrying about 600 African migrants to Europe is believed to have died when the vessel broke apart within sight of Tripoli.
African migrants were left to die in the Mediterranean after a number of European and Nato military units apparently ignored their cries for help.
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/ 21 February 2010
Egyptian police shot dead two African migrants on Sunday as they tried to slip across the Sinai peninsula desert border to Israel.
Although Johannesburg’s Central Methodist Church was an "unsuitable" shelter for children, it was their only option amid a lack of government support.
Authorities detained more than 500 mainly African migrants last year in Colombia, a growing hub for people trafficking to the United States.
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/ 23 September 2009
Egyptian border guards fatally shot an Eritrean man and seriously wounded a second as they tried to cross into Israel, police said on Wednesday.
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/ 21 September 2009
The EU should demand that Italy stop forcing African migrant boats back to Libya, Human Rights Watch said on Monday.
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.
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/ 22 December 2008
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.