February 23
Africa: Funding, Policy Changes Could Result in Countries Reaping Benefit of Migration
Amid an escalation of global conflict and climate change-induced displacements, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) is escalating its donor campaign. Read more »
February 19
Africa: Forced Migration Grows, Justice Withers, Say Activists At World Social Forum
As involuntary migration rises around the world, partly in response to the impacts of climate change, justice for those leaving their homes and families to earn a living is largely… Read more »
January 17
Africa: The Impact of Climate Migration On Developing Nations
As the world is still gearing up to welcome 2024, let us find a moment to reflect on some of the key trends of the past year and pursue now to embrace the path towards hope and… Read more »
November 27, 2023
Africa: Migration - What the EU Can Learn From Africa
Popular migration discourses in Europe often question the ability of African states to govern migration effectively. Media images of African migrants squeezed into dingy boats in… Read more »
November 24, 2023
Africa: Can COP28 Deliver for Cities and Climate Migrants?
The impacts of climate change on human mobility have yet to be fully understood and addressed on a global scale, even though some 3.3 to 3.6 billion people are highly vulnerable to… Read more »
June 19, 2023
Libya: A Shipwreck in Greece Reminds Us of the Mess in Libya
A new catastrophe in the Mediterranean, this time off the coast of Greece. The number of drowned still to be determined -- barely 100 survivors speak of more than 700 passengers on… Read more »
Africa: Migration - Europe's Complicity in Massive Human Rights Violations
Make no mistake: European States are complicit in the death of thousands and thousands of human beings on their shores, land borders and at home. The massive drowning of hundreds… Read more »
February 24, 2023
Africa: Spain - Home to The 'Greenhouses of Death' for African Migrants
Chances are that the fruits and vegetables sold in European supermarkets have been picked and packed by a migrant worker in southern Spain. By the tens of thousands, they work… Read more »
December 13, 2022
Africa: The Humanitarian Rescue Fleet Faces Hurricane Meloni
It was a hellish journey aboard a crammed boat amid three-meter waves. It had started on a Libyan beach, and at the gates of winter. On December 11, the last 500 migrants rescued… Read more »
December 01, 2022
Africa: Illegal Immigration - a Mounting Global Crisis
Illegal immigration has evolved into a mounting crisis for a growing number of countries worldwide and governments appear to be at a loss on how to deal with the crisis. Read more »
October 20, 2022
Africa: Saving Lives Can't Ever Be Divisive
That's why a new ship with a big white "E" will navigate the Mediterranean Sea. The vessel has a red hull, is more than fifty meters long and has low decks. Soon, it will leave the… Read more »
August 03, 2022
Africa: Technology Helps Traffickers Hunt Their Victims, Enslave Them, Sell Their Organs
Human beings have proved to be capable of producing innumerable practical inventions while much too often making the worst use of them. Take the case, per example, of how criminal… Read more »
July 07, 2022
South Africa: Myths Fuel Xenophobic Sentiment
Around the world, from Syria to Libya, from Bangladesh to Ukraine, millions have become refugees in foreign lands due to war, famine, or political and economic instability in their… Read more »
July 04, 2022
Africa: EU's Exclusionary Migration Policies Place People On the Move At Greater Risk
A mass attempt on June 24, 2022, of about 2000 African migrants to scale the border fence between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla left at least 37 people dead. Read more »