Tunisia said, on Sunday, it foiled 52 irregular immigration attempts to cross the Mediterranean into Europe, Anadolu Agency reports. In a statement, the Tunisian Interior Ministry said it arrested 1,004 people during a security operation between Sept. 27 and Sept. 29 in the southern province of Sfax. According to the statement, the ministry officials rounded up […]
Tanzanian authorities said on Monday that they intercepted a fuel tanker ferrying 65 Ethiopian illegal immigrants in the southern highlands, an official said. Majid Mwanga, the Mlele District Commissioner in the southern highlands region of Katavi, said officials from the Immigration and Tanzania Forest Services Agency intercepted the empty fuel tanker at around 1.00 p.m. […]
The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) says it has rescued 633 migrants off the coast of Libya and sent them back to the North African country over the past week. “In the period of 27 November – 3 December 2022, 633 migrants were intercepted and returned to Libya,” IOM said in a statement. So far […]