At least 18 people have been killed and 43 others injured in a fire incident at a camp for African migrants in Algeria. Emergency services said on Tuesday that the blaze began before dawn at the camp housing about 600 migrants in Ouargla, 800 kilometers (500 miles) southeast of Algeria’s capital, Algiers. According to the […]
Up to 40 African migrants are feared drowned off the coast of Libya. Survivors who came ashore in Sicily after being rescued by a German navy ship told aid agencies that their boat had started to fall apart shortly after putting to sea near Tripoli. The ship brought nearly 300 migrants, most of them men, […]