Gwanda, Zimbabwe – A Toyota Hilux with South African plates parks on the roadside in Nkwana village in Zimbabwe’s Matabeleland South province and honks its horn. An aged girl makes her technique to the automobile the place the motive force arms her parcels containing groceries, a blanket and a small envelope with an undisclosed amount…
If not left to die of dehydration or sickness, migrants on the damaging land routes by northern Africa towards the Mediterranean and Europe threat rape, torture, intercourse trafficking and even organ theft, in line with a brand new report produced partly by the United Nations. Migrant deaths on the Mediterranean have drawn world consideration over…
TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Migration activists are sounding the alarm this week about mass expulsions and arbitrary arrests in Tunisia, the place authorities are seeing extra migrants arrive for tried Mediterranean crossings from the North African nation to Europe. The Tunisian Discussion board for Financial and Social Rights on Monday accused the federal government of…
PodcastPodcast, The Take For years, Black migrants have been deserted within the Sahara. Now, an investigation exhibits the European Union is concerned. A sprawling new investigation paperwork systemic police abuse towards Black folks migrating to Europe – all with the backing of a not-so-silent accomplice, the European Union. On this episode: Episode credit: This episode…
Rescued migrants sit in a ship of the Italian Finance Police on Monday earlier than disembarking on the port of the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, southern Italy. The Italian Cupboard met Monday to undertake new measures to crack down on migration after the southern island of Lampedusa was once more overwhelmed by a wave of…
The EU helps and funds operations in North Africa to dump migrants in the course of the desert, an investigation has claimed. Morocco, Tunisia, and Mauritania have been accused of utilizing EU funds to spherical up migrants and discard them within the Sahara, the place they face kidnap, torture, sexual violence and dying. The migrants…
A brand new report by The Washington Publish has revealed that Europe is complicit within the inhumane North African nations’ apply of pushing migrants to the desert. In response to the newspaper’s investigation, performed alongside Lighthouse Reviews and different worldwide media homes, the European Union, alongside some particular person European nations, finance these inhumane operations…
The Lighthouse Studies stated it interviewed greater than 50 black migrants – all of them from sub-Saharan Africa and West Africa – who had been expelled from the three nations. The report additionally cited two EU sources who acknowledged it was “inconceivable” to completely account for a way the funding from Brussels was getting used….
In Rabat, the capital of Morocco, Lamine, a younger Guinean, was arrested six occasions by the police in 2023 earlier than being ruthlessly despatched again to the opposite aspect of the nation. (Folks talked about on this investigation by a primary title solely requested anonymity.) In Mauritania, Bella and Idiatou, additionally Guinean, have been deserted…
“There may be Algeria, observe the sunshine,” the Tunisian official barked on the Black migrants. “Should you’re seen right here, you’ll be shot.” François, a 38-year-old Cameroonian, obeyed, leaping up and about of a pickup truck close to the desolate Algerian frontier. A day earlier, the rickety boat trying to hold him and different hopeful…