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International

U.N. Agencies Urge Trump To Allow Refugees Entry

he United Nations refugee agency and International Organization for Migration (IOM) called on the Trump administration...

International

180 Missing People Presumed Dead After Shipwreck

Four people are dead and nearly 180 are missing, presumed dead, after a ship capsized in the Mediterranean on Saturday,...

International

Exiled Gambians Ponder Return To Troubled Homeland

Musa Saidykhan still feels the ache in the scars knotting across his back when the temperature drops every winter in...

International

Libya Deport Dozens of Illegal African Migrants

Libyan authorities deported 157 illegal African migrants on Thursday. The migrants are mostly from Mali and were hoping...

Opinion

Pre-Departure Training, Key To Solve Plights of Migrants

Human trafficking and slavery is an international concern affecting millions of people across the globe. For Ghana,...

Top Stories

More Ghanaian Migrants Languishing In Italy

The number of irregular migrants from Ghana to Italy rose from 4,450 last year, to 5,545 from January to November, this...

International

Libya Deports More Than 100 African Migrants

Libyan authorities on Tuesday deported around 140 African migrants, who had previously arrived in Tripoli illegally via...

Top Stories

Abuse of Ghanaian Women In Middle-East On the Rise – IOM Raises Alarm

The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has raised concern about increasing reports of Ghanaian female...

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IOM, Gov’t and CSOs Move To Protect Rights of Vulnerable Ghanaian Migrants

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and seven key Ghanaian Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs)...

International

African Migration Expected To Rise Due To Accelerated Climate Change

Africa faces a surge in internal and cross-border migration in the coming years due to increased climate change and its...

International

Iraqi Special Forces Seize Mosul District In Fresh Push

Iraqi soldiers drive into to Shahrezad village east of Mosul, Iraq Iraqi special forces said they pushed deeper into...

International

240 Migrants Drowned Off Libyan Coast On Wednesday

At least 240 migrants have drowned off the coast of Libya within the last 48 hours, possibly as an unintended...

International

Women, Children Flood Mosul As ISIS Loses Ground

The civilians from southern villages appear to have been forced into the city by ISIS, and witnesses said they looked...

Top Stories

Stepping Over the Dead On A Migrant Boat

It began with blips on a radar screen, 12 miles off the Libyan coast. As the rescuers approached, they found overloaded...

Opinion

Boko Haram Leaves Nigeria A Lifetime of Mental Trauma

Maiduguri (Nigeria) (AFP) - The soldier clutched his book with both hands. He shouted his name, rank and Nigerian Army...

International

Thousands of Migrants Rescued Off Libya

About 6,500 migrants have been rescued off Libya, the Italian coastguard says, in one of the biggest operations of its...

Feature

Life in Europe: Dream or Nightmare? The Lives of African Immigrants in the Netherlands.

Moving to Europe is a dream for many Africans, but the reality is often a nightmare. The Dutch immigration policy has...