Sertan Sanderson

Under new plans, Frontex could soon have powers to deport people from one non-EU country to another as part of the European Union's changing approach to managing migration. The change is likely to mean that the EU's external border force agency would be in charge of enforcing removals to planned EU return hubs. The changes would come as part of a major overhaul of Frontex's mandate.

A small boat with 128 people on board has reached Britain from across the English Channel on July 10. The arrival marks the largest-ever known number of people to make the dangerous crossing in a single vessel.

Is Kenya Africa's next major energy hub? Dangote Industries' plan to build a massive refinery off the country's coast could reshape fuel supply, trade and economic growth across East Africa.

In the UK, the government's decision last year to restrict the rights of certain migrants who are due to be sent back to France under the so-called "one-in, one-out" deal between the two nations has been ruled "unlawful." Under the policy, people who were earmarked to be sent back to France and whose claims to be victims of human trafficking had been rejected were unable to appeal that decision before being removed. Britain's Home Office, however, has announced that it would appeal the High Court decision.

Kasar Kenya ta kama hanyar shiga sahun kasashen Afirka da ke kan gaba wajen samar da makamashi, kasancewarta cibiyar hada-hadar kasuwanci da msana'antu a yankin gabashin Afirka.

Since the suspension of family reunions last September, over 16,300 refugees in the UK have been stopped from reuniting with their families. While many of them could be stranded in war zones and facing persecution, there's concern among rights groups that in the absence of legal reunification routes, they might turn to people-smugglers to get them to Britain.

Spain's extraordinary regularization decree has come under fire after the number of applications exceeded 1.2 million — more than twice the forecast number. Spain's migration minister has now responded to public concern and misinformation about the regularization drive, calling for an end to prejudice against migrants and emphasizing the important role they will play in the country's economy.

According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), support for taking in refugees in host nations remains strong — despite growing conflicts, economic pressures, and heated debates on migration. However, many respondents taking part in the poll also expressed doubt.

In Britain, an Afghan national accused of navigating an overcrowded migrant boat in the English Channel has been sentenced to two years in prison. This is the latest conviction under new UK laws that make endangering lives at sea a crime.

Spanish rescue services brought 165 migrants to shore off one of the smallest of the Canary Islands archipelago, El Hierro earlier this week. The rescue comes in the wake of hundreds of "tragic maritime incidents," in which at least 144 migrants are believed to have died or remain missing off the Mauritanian coast, at the start of the journey towards the Canary Islands.