Tag: North Africa

About 5,000 refugees bound for Italy were rescued in waters off the coast of Libya between Thursday and Saturday morning ...

Libya on Thursday asked Italy to arm the patrol boats it uses in the fight against illegal immigration across the ...

Italian Interior Minister Marco Minniti on Monday handed over to the Libyan coastguard four patrol boats repaired in Italy as ...

Top US and EU officials will meet on Wednesday to discuss a controversial plan to outlaw carry-on laptops and other ...

The European Union will hold high-level talks with the United States in Brussels on Wednesday to discuss a possible US ...

Seven bodies were recovered and 484 people were rescued from boats in the Mediterranean Sea while attempting to cross into ...

The EU is seeking urgent talks with Washington over a possible US ban on carry-on computers on European flights to ...

Illegal migrants, who were rescued by the Libyan coastguard in the Mediterranean Sea off the Libyan Some 6,000 migrants hoping ...

Libya's coastguard on Wednesday intercepted a wooden boat packed with more than 350 migrants after duelling with a German rescue ...

US authorities are considering banning carry-on computers on European flights to the United States, widening the security measure introduced for ...

Tunisia's election chief Chafik Sarsar has resigned just months before the country is due to hold its first post-revolution municipal ...

About 100 African migrants stormed over a high double fence between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla on Tuesday ...

Eleven migrants have died and nearly 200 are missing after two boats carrying asylum seekers sank off the coast of ...

Military pressure, in-fighting within Boko Haram and Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari's health combined to secure the release of 82 kidnapped ...

Eleven migrants have died and nearly 200 are missing after two boats sank off the coast of Libya, UN agencies ...

Egypt's parliament on Sunday adopted a law whose aim is to attract foreign investors to the country as authorities seek ...

A French mineworker who was kidnapped in Chad and taken to neighbouring Sudan has been freed after more than six ...

Some 6,000 migrants hoping to head to Europe were rescued in the Mediterranean on Friday and Saturday in dozens of ...

Gunmen mugged 129 migrants on a rubber dinghy headed for Europe and also stole the craft's motor, abandoning them off ...

Rescuers in the Mediterranean raced Friday to the aid of more than 20 migrant dinghies in distress as the debate ...