The World Food Programme (WFP) has launched a seasonal support project for one million people including internally displaced persons, refugees, returnees, and vulnerable families experiencing food insecurity in Mali.
The UN migration agency is calling on the international community to provide funds for aid in Central Sahel. Over a million people have been displaced and over three million are struggling with food insecurity in the region, IOM says.
In recent weeks, violence worsened in the Sahel region of Africa, causing hundreds of people to flee and putting greater pressure on host communities. UNHCR has issued a warning about the humanitarian situation in the area.
More than a thousand people – a mix of refugees from Mali, displaced Niger nationals and local host communities – have fled their home area in western Niger after an attack which killed three people and wounded others, UNHCR said in a statement Tuesday.
Forced from their homes by floods, storms and wars, millions of internally displaced people are now at risk of a pandemic.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the UN Refugee Agency UNHCR have announced a temporary suspension of resettlement travel for refugees because of COVID-19.
On Monday, a Frontex operated repatriation flight took off from Spain’s Canary Islands for Mauritania. 51 African migrants were on board. This is the third such flight this year, says the Spanish Ombudsman. The repatriations are a result of a 2003 agreement signed between Spain and Mauritania.
In 2019, the online information site "Black Post" was set up in Italy. Staffed by immigrants, its aim is to tackle the subject of migration in a clear and humanizing fashion. The site focuses on bringing migrants' personal stories to their audience.
A series of five memorial "stumbling stones" have been placed at five schools in Rome in memory of a 14-year-old Malian student who died on a boat in the Mediterranean with his report card sewn into his pocket.
A group of 25 Malians without papers, who had been illegally employed on a big building site in Paris in 2016, have each been awarded €34,000 in damages, with interest, for "systematic racial discrimination" by a French employment tribunal.
An opera titled "Winter Journey" tells the story of a migrant who leaves his family in Africa to board one of the many boats from Libya to follow his dream of working in Europe and sending money back home.
A hard-hitting book, “Magic system: African footballers and the modern slave trade” tells the story of the newest type of human trade: that of African footballers who are ready to do anything in the hope of getting to Europe.