LAGOS OCTOBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)— Hundreds of migrants protested for the 10th straight day Monday outside a United Nations facility in Libya’s capital of Tripoli demanding evacuation from the North African nation. The gathering outside the U.N. refugee agency’s facility began after Libyan authorities launched a massive crackdown on migrants earlier this month in the western…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Haitian migrants had done well for themselves. Since leaving their country, many more than a decade ago, they had built lives in Chile, Brazil, Panama. They had homes and cars. They had stable jobs as bank tellers, welders, mine supervisors, gas station attendants. But they longed for the possibility of a…
LAGOS MARCH 18TH (NEWSRANRANGERS)-President Joe Biden: says Migrants should apply, qualify for asylum from home before coming to U.S. Majority of migrants crossing the border with the U.S. are immediately sent back, so the better option for them would be to apply for asylum from home countries and check whether they qualify before coming over….
LAGOS FEBRUAY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Smugglers are reportedly helping migrants scale sections of Donald Trump’s multi-billion border wall using $5 ladders. US Border Patrol has seen a rise in camouflage “hook-and-ladders” within the far south-west region of Texas since May last year, according to The El Paso Times. El Paso’s urban stretch of border is said to…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Forty-one migrants were found alive in a refrigerated truck in northern Greece on Monday, said police, who arrested the driver. The migrants, of apparent Afghan origin, were mostly in good condition but seven received first aid in hospital, the police said. “The truck contained men and boys. Identifying their nationality will require…
LAGOS APRIL 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Pope Francis who is on visit to Morocco warned political leaders who want to build walls to keep out migrants “end up prisoners of the walls that they build.” Francis said he simply couldn’t understand in his head or his heart how a government could be so cruel as to put up…
LAGOS JANUARY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Spanish civil guard on Sunday discovered African migrants inside two mattresses at the Melilla territory. In a video shared by Facebook user, Mohamed Hichonu, the security operatives could be seen lifting the mattresses off the roof of a car and one of them slicing it open with a knife. His action revealed…
LAGOS JULY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Hundreds of Nigerians languishing in Osama Prison in Libya have cried out to the Federal Government, prominent Nigerians and the United Nations (UN) to come to their rescue. The victims, mostly immigrants who made failed attempts to enter Europe across the Sahara Desert, said in a video recorded and smuggled out of…