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


Uganda considering Israeli request to take African migrants, minister says

In January, Israel started handing out notices to male migrants from Eritrea and Sudan giving them three months to take the voluntary deal with a plane ticket and $3,500 or risk being thrown in jail.

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.

Will Netanyahu use the migrants controversy to call an election?

When it comes to migrants, Netanyahu is weighing fight or flight.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

State waffles before court on Uganda deportation deal

Representatives dodge questions as to whether there’s an agreement, admit 1,749 expelled there since 2015.

African migrants painted in white hold signs during a protest against the Israeli government's plan to deport part of their community, in front of the Rwandan embassy in Herzliya, Israel February 7, 2018

60 refugee law experts against Israel’s plan to deport asylum seekers

“We call on the state of Israel to refrain from carrying out the deportations and to release those who are being detained for refusing to cooperate with their prospective deportations.”

CHILDREN OF African asylum seekers play on a Tel Aviv beach on Independence Day

State to High Court: Working toward migrant deportation deal to Uganda

The circumstances of the deal of the third country, widely reported to be Uganda, were not revealed.

African migrants in Tel Aviv

Half a deal is better than no deal

The deal Israel hammered out with the UN was a good deal, even if it was only half a deal. No deal is perfect.

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

Why can’t Israel solve the problem of status-less Africans?

Did Netanyahu really believe he could get away with the agreement he reached with the UN secretly, without informing most of his coalition partners?

AN AFRICAN migrant sits on the street in Tel Aviv, earlier 2018

In Media: Israelis protest government's flip-flopping deportation plan

Israelis gathered in Jerusalem to demonstrate against the government's ever-changing policy towards migrants.

A young boy stands in front of demonstrators protesting the government's deportation plan

Amsalem: Netanyahu may go back to UN agreement on migrants

Coalition chairman said the PM may go back to plan he canceled within 24 hours of its announcement, and that the proposal to probe the New Israel Fund is toothless.

African asylum seekers line up to apply for a visa in Bnei Brak, Israel

With Rwanda out, state says looking into other options for deportation destination

The state told the High Court this morning that it will be investigating to see if another country fits the court's standards.

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