The International Organization for Migration reports efforts are ongoing to rescue around 200 migrants, from Somalia and Ethiopia, who have been kidnapped in Libya and are being ... Read more »
Migrants sent more than U.S.$445 million in remittances to developing countries in 2016. Migration flows and the remittances that migrants send home are having large-scale impacts ... Read more »
The British High Commission has announced that email enquiries by visa customers applying from outside the UK would attract a fee as from June 1. Read more »
The Nigerien news website, Sahelien, has reported that the victims were trying to enter Europe via Libya in North Africa. Hundreds of people die every year trying to cross into ... Read more »
The regional small-scale traders have lamented the country's directive that foreigners, including East Africans, must use passports to gain entry. Read more »
They believe they have been affected by President Donald Trump's implementation of his pledge to crack down on illegal immigrants. Read more »
About 80,000 South Asians had to leave Uganda within 90 days following president Idi Amin's directive. They were expelled from the country in 1972 for "economic exploitation ... Read more »
Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn has called on Ethiopians to beware of human traffickers and illegal brokers, as time runs out for undocumented workers to take advantage of a ... Read more »
The latest White Paper by the department of home affairs contains plans for immigration policy to be overhauled according to a requirement by the African Union, obliging members to ... Read more »
At least three countries including Kenya have issued travel alerts to their citizens travelling to South Africa. Read more »
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