Joint statement issued by Border Resistance and independent activists in Ceuta.

Migreurop is a co-signatory of this press release, which condemns the human rights violations committed by the Spanish and Moroccan governments against people on the move in Ceuta. The documentation work carried out by the Border Resistance team, together with volunteers and activist collaborators, through the work of the Tetouan, Fnideq and Nador sections of the Moroccan Association for Human Rights (AMDH), sheds light on a pattern of systematic physical and psychological violence. The text (…)

Africa
Atlantic Route
· RFI, « Mauritanie: un total de 144 morts ou disparus sur la route migratoire vers les Canaries », 24 July 2026
On 21 July, 144 people died or went missing when their boat sank off the coast of Mauritania. They had set out from The Gambia to reach the Canary Islands. The Atlantic route is one of the most dangerous migration routes, particularly because the departure points on the west coast of Africa are shifting ever further south, which increases the distance (…)

Libya InfoMigrants, ‘Mediterranean: 2,500 migrants intercepted at sea and forcibly returned to Libya since the start of 2026’, 12 March 2026
Since the beginning of 2026, more than 2,500 migrants have been intercepted in the Mediterranean by the Libyan coastguard and forcibly returned to Libya. These interceptions are carried out on the basis of an agreement concluded in 2017 between Italy and Libya, which provides for logistical and financial support from Italy and the European Union to (…)

Egypt InfoMigrants, ’In Egypt, arrests of African refugees are increasing as part of a widespread crackdown,’ 25 February 2026
Egypt has launched a campaign of arrests and deportations of migrant people in an effort to halt arrivals. Nearly 5,000 migrants have been detained in police stations for reasons related solely to immigration and several human rights organisations have denounced the ill-treatment and violence suffered in these places of deprivation of liberty.
Such violence is (…)

Libya L’Orient-le-Jour, “21 bodies of sub-Saharan migrants discovered in a mass grave”, 15 January 2026
In Libya, 21 bodies of migrants were discovered in mid-January in a mass grave in Ajdabiya, in the north-east of the country. According to local authorities, the victims were being held in a farm that had been converted into a detention centre for people on the move. Several survivors, found in critical condition, helped locate the mass grave.
Mass graves are regularly discovered in (…)