The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has denied entry to 332 migrants at the Seme Border for failing to present valid travel documents. Comptroller-General of Immigration, Mrs Kemi Nandap, made this known on Tuesday in Abuja during a one-day stakeholders’ sensitisation on “Evolving Patterns in Smuggling of Migrants: Towards a Coordinated National Response.” Nandap highlighted the…
A federal appeals court on Monday rejected a request by U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to allow it to revoke the temporary legal status of hundreds of thousands of Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Venezuelans living in the United States. The Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to put on hold a judge’s order…
Rwandan Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe said Rwanda is in the early stages of talks to receive immigrants deported from the United States. Rwanda has in recent years, positioned itself as a destination country for migrants that Western countries would like to remove, despite concerns by rights groups that Kigali does not respect some of the…
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has apprehended no fewer than 51 suspected irregular migrants of Malian origin at New Nyanya, Karu Local Government of Nasarawa State. This is contained in a statement by the Service Public Relations Officer, Akinsola Akinlabi on Wednesday in Abuja. Akinlabi said that preliminary investigations conducted by the service suggested that…
The United Nations’ Refugee Agency (UNHCR) on Wednesday said at least six migrants have died and 40 were missing after a shipwreck off the Italian island of Lampedusa. The Italian coastguard said separately it intervened after being alerted to a rubber dinghy in distress on Tuesday, finding 10 survivors and six bodies. The coastguard said…
Italy has once again transferred migrants to Albania, in spite of previous legal defeats, after an Italian Navy ship carrying 49 refugees docked in the port of the Albanian city of Shëngjin. The Italian News Agency ANSA reported on Tuesday. The asylum applications for these individuals who had travelled for days across the Mediterranean are…
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) on Monday said that 1,313 migrants were rescued off the coast of Libya in the past week. IOM said in a statement, that from January 19 to 25, 1,313 migrants were intercepted and returned to Libya, “The migrants include more than 160 women and over 60 children, IOM said,…
The Chadian government has reportedly deported more than 600 irregular migrants from Nigeria who were primarily involved in begging and other illegal activities within the country. Sources indicate that those affected originated from Borno, Kano, Sokoto, and Kaduna States in northern Nigeria. Many of these individuals fled in large numbers during the height of the…
Türkiye Interior Minister, Ali Yerlikaya announced on Monday that authorities have detained 1,644 irregular migrants and 51 human trafficking organisers in nationwide operations. Yerlikaya said on his social media platform X, that among the detained organisers, 11 were foreign nationals, adding that deportation procedures for the detained migrants have already been initiated. The minister did…
The former director general of the UK’s Border Force said that illegal immigrants need to be deported swiftly as Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s decision to scrap the Rwanda Plan. The decision to scrap the Rwanda Plan was criticised by Conservative Party members. Tony Smith, who led the UK’s border force operation until 2013 after starting…
