Amanda Nero News Today

Call a friend with a connection, get a passport in 24 hours, and hand over some cash. That is what it takes to flee the fragile Sahel region of Africa, where smuggling networks exploit the desperation of people, leading in some cases to such deadly disasters as the recent shipwreck off the coast of Greece.

In July, Speedwell told Newsday that she had been receiving disability cheques from a young age. She said she lives on her own with her three children and that money is what she uses to pay rent, and provide for her children.

The actress Maty Sarr has since 2018 been working in Senegal with the volunteer network Migrants as Messengers (MaM) and running a theater group of returnees through the Senegalese Association for the Fight Against Irregular Migration (ASMI).

International charity, Oxfam, warned on Friday that the humanitarian situation in the drought-stricken Horn of Africa is deteriorating fast as the worst-hit areas hurtle towards famine. The charity said one person is likely to die of hunger every 36 seconds over the next three months in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya…

Women and girls make up the majority of migrants in the East and Horn of Africa at 50.4 per cent compared to men and boys, a phenomenon and migration trend unique to the region according to a new report by the International Organization for Migration's (IOM) Regional Data Hub. While…

The coronavirus pandemic triggered a worldwide mental-health crisis.