DALTON BENNETT, Associated Press SHAWN POGATCHNIK, Associated Press CREIL, France (AP) — Against the odds, Hamed Kouyate has achieved his childhood dream of escaping African poverty...
JAMEY KEATEN, Associated Press PARIS (AP) — In the shadow of the famed Sacre Coeur basilica, hundreds of migrants have poured into a makeshift tent camp...
JAMEY KEATEN, Associated Press PARIS (AP) — In the shadow of the famed Sacre Coeur basilica, hundreds of migrants have poured into a makeshift tent camp...
(BBC) – The European Commission has called on EU member states to take in 40,000 asylum seekers from Syria and Eritrea who land in Italy and...
MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) — Mozambique’s president is hosting his South African counterpart on a state visit. President , on Wednesday welcomed South African President Jacob Zuma...
(BBC) – South Africa’s high court has temporarily prevented the deportation of more than 300 undocumented migrants. Rights activists have criticised the arrests of more than...
(BBC) – South Africa’s high court has temporarily prevented the deportation of more than 300 undocumented migrants. Rights activists have criticised the arrests of more than...
(Reuters) – Almost all the migrants who died seeking a better life in Europe over the past quarter century vanished without trace, according to research...
(BBC) – The wave of xenophobic attacks seems to have died down for now but the issue of immigration remains controversial. South Africans have turned out...
(Reuters) – Libya’s coast guard detained on Wednesday almost 600 illegal African migrants, among them pregnant women and 18 children, who had tried to sail...
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist The recent deaths of more than a thousand African refugees attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea in order to...
(BBC) – At least 200 Senegalese died in the boat disaster off the coast of Libya earlier this month, officials say. More than 750 migrants are...
(BBC) – At both ends of the African continent, there is macabre drama being played out over migration. At the southern tip of the continent,...
(BBC) – At both ends of the African continent, there is macabre drama being played out over migration. At the southern tip of the continent,...
CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Only a few kilometers (miles) separate Alexandra, a gritty Johannesburg township where South Africans attacked immigrants last week, from...
(BBC) – Foreign-owned shops in South Africa have been attacked and looted in east Johannesburg, the latest in a series of xenophobic attacks. A standoff is...
(BBC) – Foreign-owned shops in South Africa have been attacked and looted in east Johannesburg, the latest in a series of xenophobic attacks. A standoff is...
LYNSEY CHUTEL, Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — President Jacob Zuma on Thursday urged South Africans to stop attacking immigrants from Africa and South Asia, but hundreds...
(BBC) – The UN refugee agency says not enough is being done to save the lives of the rising number of migrants trying to cross the...