Abike Dabiri-Erewa, the Senior Special Assistant on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora, has said that 116 Nigerian migrants have been processed for repatriation back to Nigeria - but 24 ... Read more »

The new transit center will have a capacity for a 1,000 people and asylum candidates will be moved to the U.N. center in Niamey in Niger, to complete their applications. Read more »

Germany's migration policy is also making waves online among Africans. Chancellor Angela Merkel's question on whether or not to shut the door on asylum seekers, has some Africans ... Read more »

The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the administration's travel restrictions on citizens from five Muslim countries, handing President Donald Trump a victory in enforcing one of his ... Read more »

The Italian Ambassador to Nigeria, Stefano Pontesilli, has dismissed reports that Italy sent some migrants, including Nigerians, on the sea route to Europe back to Libya. ... Read more »

The six men - four Libyans and two Eritreans - head up criminal networks and militias that exploit sub-Saharan African migrants seeking to cross the Mediterranean to Europe and ... Read more »

Libya's transitional leaders, some of whom will be presidential candidates, are entangled in - and benefit from - the country's war economy. So do various armed factions that may ... Read more »

Rival Libyan leaders and diplomats from more than 20 countries meeting in Paris have agreed in principle to hold elections later this year. Read more »

UNHCR said those deported were part of a group of around 160 Sudanese refugees and asylum seekers arrested in Agadez on May 2. The majority fled to Niger to escape harsh conditions ... Read more »

Italy's collaboration with Libya to stop migrants from crossing the Mediterranean is facing a legal challenge. A lawsuit filed in the European Court of Human Rights asserts that ... Read more »