In Guatemala, families mourn the migrants who never reached the US
Yepocapa/San Juan La Laguna, Guatemala Reuters The journey of Rossanna and Widman began in the Guatemalan village of San Juan La Laguna, on the turquoise Lake Atitlan, where they met when he bought the tortillas she was selling for lunch. It ended in the murky waters of the Rio Grande. Family members carry the body […]
Rescuers race to find over 100 migrants missing off Djibouti coast; search for shipwrecked migrants near Canaries called off
Narobi, kenya/Madrid, Spain Reuters Rescuers are searching for more than 100 migrants off the coast of Djibouti after smugglers forced them to jump into the sea, the UN migration agency said on Wednesday. At least 45 bodies have been recovered from Tuesday’s incident, a death toll that makes 2024 the deadliest year on record for […]
Two more migrant boats reach Canary Islands after deadly sinking
El Hierro, Spain Reuters Two boats loaded with migrants reached the Canary Islands late on Sunday as rescuers kept searching for 48 missing from an earlier sea wreck that may be the deadliest such accident for 30 years in the Spanish archipelago. A makeshift vessel carrying 81 migrants reached Tenerife, the Canaries’ largest island, emergency […]
Hopes fade of finding dozens of migrants missing after boat sinks off Canary Islands
El Hierro, Spain Reuters Hopes of finding any of the 48 migrants missing since their boat sank near the Spanish island of El Hierro are diminishing, authorities said on Sunday, in what threatens to be the deadliest such incident in 30 years of crossings from Africa to the Canary Islands. Nine people, one of them […]
Migrants’ dreams of British future upended by deadly Channel tragedy
Calais, France Reuters Around 7am on Tuesday, Anwar Mansour, a 17-year-old Eritrean, and some 60 other migrants including women and children boarded a 10-metre-long dinghy on a beach in northern France and set off across the choppy waters of the Channel for Britain. Two hours out to sea, the vessel punctured. Within minutes it had […]
Seven rescued, 21 missing after migrant shipwreck off Italy’s Lampedusa while at least 12 migrants dead after vessel capsizes in Channel
Rome, Italy Reuters Seven people were rescued and 21 people were missing at sea after a migrant shipwreck off the island of Lampedusa, the Italian coast guard said on Wednesday. The survivors, all male Syrian nationals, were picked up from a semi-sunken boat about 10 nautical miles south-west of Lampedusa, a statement said. Coast guard […]
UN probing reported mass grave on Libya-Tunisia border
Geneva, Switzerland Reuters The UN human rights chief said on Tuesday that his office was following up on reports of a mass grave in the desert along the Libya-Tunisia border, after the bodies of at least 65 migrants were found at another site earlier this year. Volker Turk denounced widespread violations against migrants and refugees […]
Migrant shipwrecks off Italy leave 11 dead, more than 60 missing
Rome, Italy Reuters Eleven people died and more than 60 were missing, including 26 children, following two migrant shipwrecks off Italy’s southern shores, aid groups, coastguard officials and UN agencies said on Monday. German aid group RESQSHIP, which operates the Nadir rescue boat, said it picked up 51 people from a sinking wooden boat, including […]
Migrants dying in unprecedented numbers on Canary Islands route, NGO says
Arguineguin, Spain Reuters An unprecedented nearly 5,000 migrants have died at sea in the first five months of 2024 trying to reach the Spanish Canary Islands, according to a report released by migration rights group Walking Borders on Wednesday. Between 1st January and 31st May, 4,808 people died on the Atlantic voyage to the Canaries […]
Migrant stories: African disaster survivor haunted by weeks lost at sea
NGOUDA DIONE and ZOHRA BENSEMRA, of Reuters, report from Senegal on Birane Mbaye’s story…