Myanmar’s navy is escorting a boat crammed with 727 abandoned migrants to an undisclosed location, four days after intercepting it in the Andaman Sea, the country’s information minister said on Tuesday. The migrants, who were found drifting on Friday in a converted fishing boat that was taking on water, wanted[…]
The European Commission is due to unveil its latest version of a controversial plan to force EU member states to more evenly absorb the wave of migrants reaching Europe via the Mediterranean. UN chief Ban Ki-moon was also due in Brussels on Wednesday after urging Europe to do more to[…]
The Malaysian Foreign Minister was to visit Myanmar on Thursday to discuss the thousands of migrants from Myanmar’s Rohingya ethnic minority adrift across South-East Asia. Anifah Aman’s visit comes a day after Kuala Lumpur and Jakarta agreed to allow thousands of the migrants, who also include Bangladeshis, to temporarily land[…]
Indonesian fishermen on Wednesday rescued more than 370 migrants, many from Myanmar’s Rohingya minority, a rescue official said. They were evacuated from two boats off Aceh province, said Khairul Nova, the chief of the search and rescue agency in the town of Langsa. “They were dehydrated, hungry and very weak,”[…]
The Philippines has signalled it is ready to take in thousands of migrants who are stranded on Asia’s seas, the first country to offer shelter after its south-east Asian neighbours blocked them from entering. Manila, a signatory to the United Nation’s refugee convention, said it would help as it denied[…]
Myanmar refused to shoulder blame for an escalating migrant crisis and cast doubts on whether it will attend a summit in Thailand later this month aimed at easing an emergency that has left thousands of refugees stranded at sea. “We are not ignoring the migrant problem, but our leaders will[…]
Migrants intercepted at sea will not “be sent back against their will”, the European Union’s foreign policy chief has told the UN Security Council, in the context of a proposed EU maritime operation against the growing wave of migrant smuggling from North Africa. Federica Mogherini addressed the Security Council on[…]
Italy has rescued about 600 migrants in six operations, one in cooperation with Maltese authorities, in the past 24 hours, the country’s coastguard told Al Jazeera. It was not immediately clear whether the rescued people included 100 Somali migrants who were stranded on a plastic boat in the Mediterranean on[…]
Nearly 5,800 migrants rescued from boats off the coast of Libya over the past 48 hours have arrived on the Italian port of Pozzallo, according to coastguard officials. The development comes as part of European coastguard agencies’ biggest rescue operation this year. Al Jazeera’s Stephanie Dekker, reporting on Monday from[…]
Twenty-four coffins containing the only bodies recovered from the Mediterranean’s worst-ever migrant disaster have been laid out for a memorial service in Malta for the estimated 800 victims. Malta’s president and prime minister, Italy’s interior minister and the EU’s migration commissioner were present for Thursday’s service, which includes Christian and[…]
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