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 (…)

Libya Afrique XXI, ‘In Libya, a deadly prison system in the shadow of Europe’, 19 December 2025
Afrique XXI has published an investigation into Libyan ’detention centres’, where thousands of people on the move are arbitrarily detained, tortured and left to die every day. This investigation, which brings together 20 testimonies, cross-referenced with reports from human rights organisations, reveals a deadly system of imprisonment and extortion, made possible by the outsourcing of European (…)

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Mauritania El Diario, “La UE abre en Mauritania, con la colaboración de España, dos cárceles para migrantes inspiradas en los campamentos policiales de Canarias”, 6 November 2025.
On 17 October 2025, two new “temporary reception centres for foreigners” were inaugurated in Mauritania, in Nouakchott and Nouadhibou. These facilities were funded and built by the European Union with the support of the Foundation for the Internationalisation of Public Administrations (FIAP), following the model (…)