In 2018, Xchange visited Niger to explore the under-reported consequences of the 2015 criminalisation of migration at Europe's new 'southern border'. Access it here....
When ISIS was defeated in Sirte in December 2016, dozens of women and children held hostage by the terrorist group thought their nightmare was over. Some of the enslaved women had managed to escape during the terror group’s almost two-year reign in Libya’s central coastal...
A photographer who was onboard a migrant vessel from which four young Eritrean men were discovered dead said people inside the vessel's hold were packed so tightly it would have been easy for survivors not to realise that they had died. “People are packed so tightly in the hold," said...
The European Parliament has made a statement condemning Myanmar for its ‘systematic persecution’ against the Rohingya. The parliament passed a resolution on Thursday, that MP’s expressed deep concern for he stateless ethnoreligious group. The resolution urges Myanmar to “ensure free and unimpeded access” to the United...
Migrants are being sold for organ harvesting if they are unable to pay for their trips across the Mediterranean, an Eritrean smuggler turned state witness revealed to Italian authorities. Nuredin Wehabrebi Atta was arrested in Italy in 2014. After exposing an elaborate transnational trafficking network, Atta became the...
More than 2,800 migrants have died in the Mediterranean this year as of June 19, a sharp increase compared to last year at this time, when about 1,800 deaths were reported during the same period. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) reports 1,020 more fatalities than last year’s...
The rate at which people are fleeing war and persecution has soared from 6 per minute in 2005 to 24 per minute in 2015, according to a new report released today by the UN Refugee Agency. The picture given by the UN agency appears dire and worsening. Wars...
Just over 7,000 unaccompanied minors made the treacherous journey across the sea from Libya to Italy in the first five months of this year, more than double the amount in the same period last year, according to the UN International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF). [caption id="attachment_5912" align="alignnone"...
The remains of 34 migrants were discovered near the Algeria-Niger border, raising the total number of recorded deaths and disappearances in Africa this year to 471, according to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). [caption id="attachment_5895" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Nigerian returnees from Algeria at an IOM Transit Center...
Turkey will miss an end of June deadline to meet the EU’s conditions for securing visa-free travel throughout the Schengen zone. This was confirmed by the European commission following the issuing of a progress report on the controversial migration deal. The next report is due...