Egypt shut two ports on the Mediterranean Sea, Alexandria and Dekheila, on Friday due to bad weather, the Alexandria Port Authority said. The decision to close the ports was due to “high waves and wind speeds that do not allow the movement of boats,” the authority’s spokesman, Reda Ghandour, said. Loading and unloading operations for […]
No fewer than 50 Nigerian migrants were among the hundreds of migrants rescued from the Mediterranean Sea over the weekend by Libya’s coastguard and international charity, Doctors Without Borders. The Nigerians were aboard a boat with 110 other migrants. They were rescued by Aquarius, a ship being operated by MSF, 21 miles from the coast […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has urged illegal migrants to stay back home and find ways to improve their personal economies rather than daring the Sahara Desert and the Mediterranean Sea, with scores of lives lost in the process. Buhari gave the advice on Tuesday while receiving Hon. Louise Mushikiwabo, Rwandan Minister of Foreign Affairs, who came […]
The Director-General of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Dame Julie Okah-Donli, has asked the Italian authorities to ensure that those involved in the death of the 26 girls on the Mediterranean Sea are properly identified and prosecuted. The NAPTIP boss also frowned at the haste with which the girls […]