African migrants

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

Libya is a transit route for migrants, many from sub-Saharan Africa, fleeing to Europe in the hopes of escaping conflict and poverty.

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.
African illegal immigrants wait to board a boat in the southern port city of Aden on September 26, 2016, before being deported to Somalia.

More than 60 migrants die as boat sinks off Yemen, dozens missing

Migration to South America.

Major genomic study reveals humanity's longest prehistoric migration from Africa to South America

 Sub-Saharan African migrants gather in a field where they live, in Jebiniana, Tunisia September 4, 2023.

Hundreds of west African migrants returned from Tunisia through IOM program


The triumph of Passover values

The outcry from so many in civil society was across the political and religious spectrum.

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

Following coalition uprising, Netanyahu freezes migrant deal

Monday's announcement of a deal with the UNHCR produced mixed reactions in Israel.

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

Migrant deal: What led to Netanyahu's dramatic policy turnaround?

What really caused Netanyahu to reverse his approach on the issue of African migrants?

An African migrant sits on the street in Tel Aviv, Israel January 31, 2018.

African migrants cautiously optimistic about U.N.-Israel agreement

We pray it will work out, but what we’re told today could change tomorrow.

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

NGOs commend government’s move to regulate the status of asylum-seekers

Omdim Beyachad has led protests against the planned deportation of African migrants in the past few months and views the new plan to regulate the status of 16,250 of them as a victory.

Tel Aviv protest against the deportation of asylum seekers

Israeli leaders voice mixed reactions to U.N. migrant plan

Meretz: The word ‘infiltrators’ has left the lexicon.

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

Israel reaches deal with U.N. to resettle asylum seekers in Western states

16,250 African migrants will be expelled to Western countries while the same number are to be granted temporary residency and dispersed across the country.

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

NGO: State detained Sudanese of Darfur until mid-March despite pledge

A recent report also sheds light on the treatment of transgender migrants, who are often placed in isolation in violation of their rights.

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

State delays migrant deportation in possible softening of position

The designated deportation day was pushed back from April 1 to April 9.

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

Forced deportation? We shall see

Israel had the right to build a fence along its Egyptian border.

African migrants wait in line for the Population and Immigration Authority office to open in Bnei Brak.