African migrants

Female migrants in Spain's Ceuta face constant threat of sexual violence

Camped outside, the women are sleeping in the open air along with hundreds of other Moroccan, sub-Saharan and South Asian migrants.

Migrants are seen in an improvised shanty camp in El Trampolin Beach on August 14, 2026 in Ceuta, Spain. Fears of a second surge of migrant crossings into the Spanish North African exclave of Ceuta have intensified following anonymous social media calls claiming that the border will open.
Migrants, some of them minors, queue to receive food staples from local NGO Media Luna Blanca in an industrial area where they are sleeping amid recent mass crossings by migrants on foot and by sea from Morocco into the Spanish territory, Migrants, some of them minorsin Ceuta, Spain, August 6, 2026.

Ceuta is not just Europe’s migration crisis; it is Africa’s wake-up call - opinion

Supporters of the South African anti-immigrant group 'March and March' hold a demonstration, after an unofficial June 30 deadline set by anti-immigrant groups for undocumented migrants to leave the country had passed, in Umzimkhulu, South Africa, July 13, 2026.

South Africa's anti-immigrant unrest tests its pan-African standing

Migrants aboard an overcrowded boat react as they are approached by the crew of the migrant search and rescue ship Sea-Watch 5, operated by the German NGO Sea-Watch, during a rescue operation in the Search and Rescue (SAR) zone in the central Mediterranean, off Libya, August 11, 2025.

Libya says 17 migrants perish at sea, nine missing feared dead


Italy calls for end to U.N. embargo on Libya to help it tackle migrants

Italy wants a United Nations arms embargo on Libya to be lifted to help the state battle people smugglers and halt the flow of migrants, Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said on Thursday.

FILE PHOTO: Northern League leader Matteo Salvini speaks during a rally in Bologna, central Italy, November 8, 2015.

Amnesty International blasts Israel’s ‘cruel’ migrant deportations

NGO says it documented transfers that don’t meet standards for voluntariness, are illegal.

An African migrant wears a T-shirt with a Hebrew phrase referring to the Holocaust," I promise to remember... and never forget!" in south Tel Aviv July 17, 2013.

Police arrest two anti-migrant demonstrators in South Tel Aviv

Some 100 protesters in south TA call for deportation of asylum seekers

African migrants stand on their balconies 370

Time to be sensible about African asylum seekers in Israel

With the deal canceled and Israel seemingly stuck now with 40,000 asylum seekers, unrealistic solutions began flowing in from both sides of the refugee matrix.

A boy takes part in a protest against the Israeli government's plan to deport African migrants, in Tel Aviv, Israel March 24, 2018.

Time to be sensible about African asylum seekers in Israel

The question remains: if the UNHCR deal moves ahead, how should Israel deal with those asylum seekers remaining in Israel?

MEN STANDING near the Holot facility.

Reopening Holot is ‘yet another spin,’ setting us back years, NGO says

Standing Together has led a campaign in the past few months to prevent the deportation of African migrants.

An African migrant holds an Israeli flag after being released from Holot detention centre in Israel's southern Negev desert August 25, 2015.

Jewish lawmakers protest Netanyahu double-take on African asylum seekers

The lawmakers, all Democrats, wrote of their “concern” and “dismay” at the prime minister’s about-face.

African migrants walk outside Holot open detention center in Israel's southern Negev desert

South Tel Aviv leader says ‘national struggle’ to reject migrants

“The ‘rehabilitation’ of southern Tel Aviv is not just a local battle,” he said, “It is part of a greater national struggle.”

Residents of south Tel Aviv protest against African migrants living in their neighbourhood

State to High Court: African migrant deportation negotiations stuck

The state on Sunday released over 200 migrants from the Saharonim detention center in the south due to the lack of a deal.

African migrants take part in a protest against Israel's detention policy toward them

Israel to free 200 migrants detained at Saharonim Prison

Migrants and rights groups say the migrants are seeking asylum after fleeing war and persecution, but the government maintains that they are "job seekers" and "infiltrators."

An African migrant holds an Israeli flag after being released from Holot detention centre in Israel's southern Negev desert August 25, 2015.