Thirteen people are confirmed dead after a boat carrying mostly Ethiopian migrants capsized off the coast of Yemen almost a week ago. Fourteen others remain missing, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
At least 49 migrants have drowned and 140 others remain missing after a boat carrying about 260 migrants wrecked off the coast of Yemen on Monday, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) reports.
The UN migration agency IOM and 27 partners are appealing for US$112 million to provide urgent humanitarian and development assistance to over 1.4 million migrants and host communities in the Horn of Africa, Yemen, and southern Africa.
Desta was one of hundreds of Ethiopian migrants allegedly killed by border guards while trying to enter Saudi Arabia. Four months on, his family is demanding answers.
The UN's refugee agency IOM is resuming return flights for Ethiopian migrants in Yemen. These flights have been on hold since September.
Since the Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko opened a migratory route from Belarus to Poland in 2021, around 50 migrants have died and hundreds are missing. Facing numerous hurdles over the past two years, an embattled but increasingly assertive civil society continues scouting for migrants and bodies in the forest.
Greek authorities said that four people died and 18 were rescued Monday after a boat carrying migrants sank northeast of the Greek island of Lesbos.
Between March 2022 and June 2023, Saudi border guards killed hundreds of Ethiopian migrants attempting to cross the border from Yemen into the oil-rich kingdom, according to a new Human Rights Watch report released on Monday. The report comes as Saudi Arabia implements an anti-migrant policy at home and a campaign to boost its image abroad.
As Muslims around the world started to observe the holy month of Ramadan last week, philanthropic activities among Muslims are on the rise. One of the biggest beneficiaries of donations around the world is the UNHCR.
Seven more people have been found alive on the Greek island of Lesbos after a shipwreck on Tuesday in which three migrants drowned. The number of survivors now stands at 39.
The organization Human Rights Watch has released a report in which it documents at least 11 incidents of sexual violence between 2016 and 2022 committed against refugee and asylum-seeking women and girls in Egypt. According to HRW, three of the rapes resulted in pregnancy, and all of the women experienced "severe physical effects."
Medical evidence in a report shows that the risk of suicide among asylum seekers in the UK has risen ever since the policy of sending them to Rwanda was first floated earlier in 2022.