Up to 50 people are thought to have died after a boat on its way to the Canary Islands got into difficulties along the African coastline. The migration NGO Caminando Fronteras (Walking Borders) has said that a boat set off from Mauritania on 2 January carrying 86 people. According to the NGO, it alerted the Moroccan and Spanish authorities that the boat was in trouble, and that Moroccan rescuers had managed to save 36 people. However, 50 of those onboard, most of them from Pakistan, are feared drowned.
Libyan writer and politician Samir Shegwara has been arrested on national security charges after publishing documents that allegedly link Libya’
Drastic funding cuts at the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), triggered by the Trump administration, have halted critical health programs
Jaouhar Ben Mbarek, a Tunisian opposition figure arrested in February 2023 on state conspiracy charges, has begun a hunger strike,
According to reporting by Africa Intelligence, while France's army in Senegal is due to leave the country by
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