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Trump doubles down on family separations, cuddles flag

A defiant Trump sounded unfazed by the mounting pressure to alleviate the situation before it ruptures into a public relations disaster for his party

Phiwokwakhe Nxumalo stands in front of her home in Swaziland. She is attending school in South Africa.

​The Swazi and Mozambican migrant scholars of Mpumalanga’s border towns

Children rent rooms in South Africa so that they can get an education – and a meal a day.

An illegal African immigrant resting at a makeshift camp in the Sidi Maafa woods in Oujda near Morocco’s Mediterranean coast on September 10 2012.

11 sub-Saharans die after boat capsizes off Morocco coast

Eleven migrants trying to reach Europe have died after their boat capsized off the north coast of Morocco.

Italy hits out at neighbours over African migrant influx

Italy has demanded that its European neighbours, starting with France, take on a share of the thousands of north Africans who have sailed to Italy.

Right-wing leader says migrants’ boats should be sunk

Boats carrying illegal migrants to Europe should be sunk Nick Griffin, the leader of the British National Party, said on Wednesday.

Illegal miners will be ‘swallowed by the earth’

The ”bellies of the earth” will swallow illegal miners trying to strike it rich in the ”bowels” of gold mines in Barberton, police warned on Friday.

Hundreds of migrants feared drowned in Bay of Bengal

More than 300 people believed to be illegal migrants are feared to have drowned off the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal.