UN Survey Says Africa’s Best Are Emigrating
Many Europeans are apprehensive about migrants coming to the continent. The United Nations has surveyed some 3,000 immigrants from African countries about their personal histories and plans — and […]
Violent Anti-African Race Riot Rocks Israel, Black Men and Women Beaten
Source: International Business Times By Anissa Haddadi Violence surged in the streets of Tel Aviv as a 1000-strong protest against African immigrants seeking asylum in Israel turned violent. Residents of a […]
Canada takes in hundreds of freed African migrants sold in Libya as slaves
by Ismail Akwei, at 01:39 pm, February 08, 2019, Refugees and migrants in one of Libya’s detention centres — Photo Credit: Confidential Canada has resettled over 150 African migrants […]
Algeria deports nearly 400 migrants back to Niger
By Reuters – Jul 15,2018 – JORDAN TIMES Migrants from Niger living near the marketplace in Boufarik, Algeria, cook food near their tents (AFP photo) NIAMEY — Algeria has deported […]
EU admits no African country has agreed to host migration centre
Plan to prevent deaths at sea revealed as Italy cries foul over summit called to help Germany Jennifer Rankin in Brussels and Patrick Wintour Thu 21 Jun 2018 Refugees shout […]
Israel says to send 16,000 African migrants to Western countries
Reuters Staff JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel said on Monday it has canceled a plan to deport African migrants to Africa and reached an agreement with the U.N. refugee agency to […]
Israel scraps African migrant deportation plan
Israel has cancelled plans to deport migrants en masse to Africa after reaching a deal with the United Nations refugee agency. More than 16,000 asylum seekers will instead be […]
Israel is betraying its history by expelling African asylum-seekers
By Gershom Gorenberg January 29 African migrants demonstrated outside the Rwandan embassy in Herzliya, Israel on Jan. 22. (Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images) “I don’t have a […]
Israel begins telling African migrants to leave
By AFP – Feb 04,2018 – JORDAN TIMES OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israel began warning thousands of African migrants on Sunday that they must leave by the end of March, officials […]
Gunman targets African migrants in Italy’s Macerata
Crime scene investigators at work after a shooting in Macerata, Italy [Carotti Nest/EPA] A gunman has injured six African migrants in the Italian city of Macerata in a series of […]
Israel to shut migrant centre and deport Africans
By AFP – Nov 19,2017 -JORDAN TIMES OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israel’s cabinet voted on Sunday to close a migrant detention centre, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced an agreement to […]
Tragedy in Sahara Desert: An Ill-Fated Attempt to Reach Fortress Europe
By Hauke Goos and Bernhard Riedmann (Photos) SPIEGEL.DE In the hottest part of the desert, an adult sitting in the shade loses up to one liter of water an hour, […]
Israel illegally coerces Africa migrants to leave — HRW
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israel has illegally coerced almost 7,000 African migrants into returning to their home countries, where some face persecution, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday. “Israel’s convoluted legal rules thwart Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers’ attempts to secure protection under Israeli and international law,” New York-based HRW said in […]
African migrants in Israel protest detentions
TEL AVIV — Chanting slogans and calling for freedom, some 200 African migrants and Israeli activists ended a two-day march with a rally on Tuesday denouncing Israel’s policy of detaining those illegally in the country. The symbolic march began Sunday when about 150 migrants left an “open” detention facility in […]
Israel approves $124 million plan to deal with illegal migrants Those who agree to leave the country may be paid up to $3,500; law enforcement teams to be boosted
Israel’s cabinet allocated nearly $124 million to a plan designed to have illegal African migrants return to their countries of origin. Most of the money allocated from the plan approved […]
Israel’s New Racism: The Persecution of African Migrants in the Holy Land
See video report here: Published on Oct 17, 2013 About 60,000 African migrants have arrived in Israel since 2006, fleeing unrest in their home countries. But upon arrival in the ostensibly democratic country, the migrants have faced intense persecution and have been branded as “infiltrators” by right-wing politicians and activists. […]
Israel's New Racism: The Persecution of African Migrants in the Holy Land
See video report here: Published on Oct 17, 2013 About 60,000 African migrants have arrived in Israel since 2006, fleeing unrest in their home countries. But upon arrival in the ostensibly democratic country, the migrants have faced intense persecution and have been branded as “infiltrators” by right-wing politicians and activists. […]
Knesset approves law barring ‘infiltrators’ from transferring money abroad
Amendment to the Law for the Prevention of Infiltration stipulates that migrants cannot send property while they are in Israel and limits the amount they can take with them once […]
Israel says it has struck deal to resettle Eritrean migrants
Reuters | Jun 03, 2013 | JORDAN TIMES OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — An unidentified country has agreed to take in Eritrean illegal immigrants living in Israel, according to Israeli court documents. Humanitarian agencies say many of the 60,000 African migrants who have walked into Israel from Egypt should be considered for […]