Over 140 migrants were rescued in seven operations launched at the weekend in the Mediterranean, the Italian coastguard said. A spokesman told French News Agency (AFP) yesterday that four of the rescue operations had already wound up but the others were ongoing.<span id= “Saturday was quiet on the whole but now there is further movement,” […]
No fewer than 500 migrants from West African countries, including Nigeria, deported from Gabon on Thursday berthed at the National Inland Waterways Authority jetty in Calabar, Cross River State after four days on the high sea. One person, whose identity could not be disclosed, was said to have died shortly before departure from Gabon (also […]