Libya Le Monde, ’La Libye redevient le premier pays de départ pour les migrants qui cherchent à rallier l’Europe’,11 June 2025 The North Africa Post, ’Dozen feared dead in Libyan shipwrecks as migrant death toll rises in Mediterranean’, 20 June 2025
The central Mediterranean route, once abandoned by people on the move after its closing down, coordinated by the Italian authoritiesand implemented by Tunis and Tripoli, is once again becoming one of the main routes for arriving in Europe: (…)

Libya InfoMigrants, ’Libye : plus de 300 Subsahariens bénéficient d’un retour volontaire vers le Tchad et le Mali depuis la ville de Sebha’, 30 May 2025
The IOM organised two ’voluntary return’ flights from the town of Sebha in Libya on 26 and 28 May 2025 to Mali and Chad, sending more than 300 Malians and Chadians back to their countries of origin. According to the Libyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, this was the first time a flight of this type had left Sebha for 15 years. However, the (…)

Algeria TV5 Monde, ’Algérie : plus de 1800 migrants expulsés à la frontière avec le Niger’, 25 April 2025
The Algerian authorities have returned more than 1,800 people on the move without right of residence to the border town of Assamaka (Niger), bringing to 4,000 the number of people pushed back during the month of April. However, these figures only take into account people registered on the Niger side: they could therefore be higher if they included people pushed back who immediately (…)

Egypt The New Arab, ’UNHCR suspends aid to refugees in Egypt over lack of funding’, 26 March 2025
On 25 March, the UNHCR announced that it would be ceasing its assistance activities for refugees in Egypt, including medical care for those fleeing the war in Sudan. The UN agency estimates that this decision, which it says was forced by uncertainty over the amount of contributions it can expect to receive this year, will affect around 20,000 people, who will be deprived of vital treatments (…)

Egypt Jurist News, ’Egypt criticised over treatment of Sudanese refugees’, 22 February 2025
The degrading living conditions of Sudanese refugees in Egypt have been the subject of a report bythe NGO Refugee International, which warns of their lack of access to health services, education and employment, and the likelihood that this situation will worsen in the wake of the adoption and entry into force of Egypt’s new asylum law. This law raises several concerns : end of UNHCR’s registration (…)