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  Spanish authorities have ordered the deportation of three Nigerians rescued in Spain’s Canary Islands after an 11-day journey from Nigeria crouched on the rudder of a fuel tanker. The migrants are set to return home under stowaway laws, according to Reuters. Indeed, two of three stowaways from Nigeria have been returned to the ship with the aim of deporting them. The third person, who suffered hypothermia and dehydration during the voyage, has not yet been released from the hospital, a loca...

Fourteen people have been sentenced to eight months in prison in Morocco for offenses connected to a mass crossing into Melilla in June. The men were arrested the day before around 2,000 migrants tried to scale the fence separating Morocco from the Spanish enclave.

Another 13 people have been sentenced to prison in Morocco following the attempt by about 2,000 migrants to cross into the Spanish enclave of Melilla in June.

Standing in a cemetery of abandoned boats, Mohamed Fane picks a West African franc off the floor and shudders at the traumatic memory of his voyage from Senegal to the Canary Islands.

GRAN CANARIA (Reuters) - Standing in a cemetery of abandoned boats, Mohamed Fane picks a West African franc off the floor and shudders at the traumatic memory of his voyage from Senegal to the Canary Islands.

By Corina Pons GRAN CANARIA (Reuters) - Standing in a cemetery of abandoned boats, Mohamed Fane picks a West African franc off the floor and shudders ...

Earl Lewis admonishes us to understand that the third slavery is not about physical chains but more about economic fetters.

Fourteen people have been sentenced to eight months in prison in Morocco for offenses connected to a mass crossing into Melilla in June. The men were arrested the day before around 2,000 migrants tried to scale the fence separating Morocco from the Spanish enclave.

Spanish system is 'kinder' depending on nationality of refugees, says Maria Gonzalez Rolan from Caminando Fronteras - Anadolu Agency

The Moroccan authorities say they retrieved the bodies of eight migrants after they drowned in an attempt to reach the Canary Islands.