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Are Gambian Immigrants Still Detained In Libya?

Monday, September 14, 2009

If the comment of Dr. Omar Touray, the former Minister of Foreign Affairs is anything to go by, a good number of Gambian immigrants are currently...

Italy Returns 31 Illegal Immigrants

Monday, June 15, 2009

As many as 31 Gambian youths were on Friday 12 June 2009, returned from Italy this paper was reliably informed. Confirming the story, Mr. Buba...

Adieu Lenrie Peters

Thursday, May 28, 2009

It is with shock that we received the demise of yet another illustrious son of The Gambia, Dr. Lenrie Peters. Dr. Peters has died in Dakar following...

No Place Like Home

Wednesday, May 06, 2009

There is a lot of debate these days about African Immigrants trying to enter Europe through what many call the “Back Way.” Like many African...

Mauritanian coast guard rescue 109 immigrants at sea

Monday, April 20, 2009

The Mauritanian coast guard rescued 109 illegal African immigrants whose boat had broken down in Mauritanian waters en route to Spain's Canary...

No Place Like Home

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

There is a lot of debate these days about African Immigrants trying to enter Europe through what many call the “Back Way.” Like many African...

4 women drown, 26 illegal immigrants arrested in Senegal

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Four women, three from Nigeria and one from Senegal, drowned while trying to cross illegally into Spanish territory and Senegalese police arrested...

COTE D'IVOIRE: Farmers return to land in west after deadly clashes

http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=81728

Friday, November 28, 2008

DAKAR Friday, November 28, 2008 (IRIN) - Some 70 long-displaced farmers - mostly immigrants - returned this week to a cocoa plantation in western...

103 Deportees Sent Back to Spain

Monday, September 22, 2008

At least 103 people considered to be illegal immigrants were on Friday 19th September 2008 repatriated from Spain, but were sent back to Spain, as...

AFRICA-UNITED KINGDOM: HIV prevention not reaching UK Africans

Thursday, September 04, 2008

Africans comprise up to 70 percent of all new heterosexual HIV cases in the United Kingdom each year, but they struggle to access prevention...