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UN agencies seek ‘decisive action’ from EU after Greece tragedy

International Organization for Migration and UN Refugee Agency say EU must put ‘safety’ at centre of Mediterranean plan.

Al Jazeera

UN demands urgent action after Greece migrant boat tragedy

The United Nations has called for in-depth investigations into the migrant boat sinking off Greece this week, believed to have left hundred dead, and urgent action to prevent further tragedies.

Radio France Internationale

Brit's fears for missing cousins after at least 78 died in Greece boat horror

The boat was estimated to be carrying up to 750 people when it capsized and sank at around 2am on Wednesday morning, according to the UN migration agency

Daily Mirror

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Greece shipwreck disaster exposes Europe’s deadly failure

Central Mediterranean migration route grows ever more perilous amid bickering over safe and legal passage

The Guardian - UK

Greece scours sea for survivors of migrant shipwreck, hundreds still missing

Rescue workers transferred the bodies of dead migrants to refrigerated trucks as a major search continued Thursday for possible survivors of a sea disaster in southern Greece. Hundreds of people are still feared missing.

France 24

Dozens are dead and hundreds feared missing from migrant ship sinking off Greece

Rescue workers transferred the bodies of dead migrants to refrigerated trucks as a major search continued Thursday for possible survivors of a sea disaster in southern Greece.

WEKU

Huge search seeks survivors of migrant boat sinking off Greece; hundreds feared missing

A huge search-and-rescue operation is under way off the coast of Greece after an overcrowded fishing boat carrying migrants capsized and sank

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Migrant death toll nearly 3,800 for Middle East, North Africa: UN

International Organization for Migration recorded 3,789 deaths in 2022, an 11 percent jump from the previous year.

Al Jazeera

Companies like Microsoft can help manage migration: incoming UN migration chief

The incoming head of the U.N. migration agency said on Thursday that she has talked to companies like Microsoft to see how they can build partnerships to manage migration.

Reuters

Isle of Man is a gem for a weekend away with a flight quicker than a drive from Belfast to Ballymena

The island felt like its own wee world and yet I arrived faster than a drive to my family home in Ballymena from Belfast

Belfast Live

The border chaos the U.S. doesn't see: Mexico's crisis

Biden policies limit crossings into the U.S. as a humanitarian crisis unfolds on Mexico's side of the border.

Axios

Portuguese chief vs. American deputy in race to lead UN migration agency

The 175 member countries of the U.N. migration agency are casting ballots to choose its leader for the next five years — an unusual contest between its European director-general and his American deputy, who is looking to oust him from the job

The Independent UK

US candidate Amy Pope wins tense contest to run UN migration agency

Former White House adviser Amy Pope was elected to head the U.N. migration agency, prevailing on Monday in a tense contest against a Portuguese incumbent who had the support of European countries.

Reuters

Election at UN migration agency pits its European chief against his American deputy

International Organization for Migration chief Antonio Vitorino of Portugal faces what is poised to be a tight race against his Biden administration-backed American deputy, Amy Pope, as the Geneva-based organization chooses its next director-general on Monday

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Over 700,000 people internally displaced within Sudan, more than doubling -IOM

The number of people displaced by violence within Sudan has more than doubled in the past week to over 700,000 people amid ongoing fighting between military factions, an International Organization for Migration spokesperson said on Tuesday.

Reuters

Fourth U.N. worker killed in Sudan clashes, IOM says

An humanitarian worker was killed in Sudan earlier on Friday after his vehicle was hit by crossfire as he tried to move his family to safety, the International Organization for Migration said.

The Week

The Darién Gap migrant crossing

A US-backed campaign between Panama and Colombia aims to stop migrants crossing the Darién Gap from South into Central America, as UN groups warn that the number of people attempting the journey could rise to a record 400,000 this year.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Tunisian Foreign Minister Discusses Illegal Migration in Italy

Tunisian Foreign Minister Nabil Ammar has discussed the worsening illegal migration crisis with several Italian officials in Rome. Thursday's visit comes after the Italian cabinet declared a state of emergency to deal with the increasing number of irregular migrants. Data from the Italian Ministry of the Interior indicates that about…

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Al Jazeera

US-led plan to ‘end’ migration through Darien Gap spurs questions

Deal with Panama, Colombia seeks to stem ‘illicit crossings’ of dangerous jungle route used by US-bound asylum seekers.

Al Jazeera

‘Deadliest quarter’ for migrants in the Central Med since 2017

More than 400 people have died crossing the Central Mediterranean between January and March this year.

Reuters

UN migration agency sounds alarm over sea deaths as EU arrivals rise

Three times as many people sought to reach the European Union across the Mediterranean in the first three months of 2023 compared to a year before, the bloc's border agency said, as the U.N. migration arm decried the deadliest first quarter since 2017.

Asharq Al-Awsat

UN: Year Is off to a Deadly Start for Migrants Crossing Med

The first three months of 2023 were the deadliest first quarter in six years for migrants crossing the central Mediterranean Sea in smugglers’ boats, the UN migration agency reported Wednesday, citing nations' delays in initiating rescues as a contributing factor. The International Organization for Migration documented 441 migrant deaths along…

The Independent UK

UN: Year is off to a deadly start for migrants crossing Med

The migration agency of the United Nations says the first three months of 2023 were the deadliest first quarter in six years for migrants crossing the central Mediterranean Sea in smugglers’ boats

Reuters

Germany takes in 32 survivors from migrant shipwreck off Italy

Germany has taken in 32 of the survivors from last month's migrant shipwreck off southern Italy, Italian and United Nations authorities said on Friday.

The Independent UK

The calculus of war: Tallying Ukraine toll an elusive task

Quantifying the toll of Russia’s war in Ukraine remains an elusive goal a year into the conflict

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