Sub-Saharans in Tunisia: About 50 migrants locked up in high-school in Kebili
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteMore than a month after the raids and expulsions of sub-Saharan migrants began in Tunisia, InfoMigrants has been in contact with a…
People smugglers 'refused to provide life jackets for the six UK-bound migrants who drowned in the English Channel yesterday', it is claimed, as Home Office reveals another 500 people made the perilous crossing on the same day
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Reading Time: < 1 minutePeople smugglers refused to provide life jackets to the UK-bound migrants who drowned in the latest small boats disaster in the English…
Home Office spent £35k on ads to deter small boat migrants - but targeted tourists instead
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Home Office spent at least £35,000 on “fear-based” social media adverts that intended to deter asylum seekers crossing the Channel in small boats, Read More
At least 23 Rohingya die after their boat sinks during attempt to flee Myanmar
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAt least 23 Rohingyas have died and 30 remain missing after a boat they were fleeing in from Myanmar, capsized in the Bay of…
Migrants moved off barge over Legionella bacteria fears
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteMigrants are being temporarily removed from the Bibby Stockholm barge after traces of Legionella bacteria were found in the water. Read More
'The migrants may perceive the barge as a prison – but it should be perceived as a sanctuary'
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Bibby Stockholm barge in Portland, Dorset, welcomed the first set of asylum seekers as part of the Home Office’s plan to…
Small boats migrant crisis hits 100,000 milestone in five years after arrivals today
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe number of people to cross the English Channel in small boats has hit 100,000 since records began in January 2018. Read…
‘Significant’ number of asylum seekers change minds about Dorset barge after Government warning
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteA “significant” number of asylum claimants has agreed to board a Dorset barge after the Government refused to offer them an “à la…
Inside the Bibby Stockholm: Migrant shares footage from barge praising the 'good food and beds' - but others complain the floating 'prison' with a pool room, gym and TVs in rooms is 'like Alcatraz'
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteAsylum seekers onboard the Bibby Stockholm have shared competing accounts of life on the barge, with one praising the ‘good food and…
Forty-one migrants die in shipwreck off Italy
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteForty-one migrants have died in a shipwreck off the Italian island of Lampedusa, survivors told local media. Read More