African migrants

More than 60 migrants die as boat sinks off Yemen, dozens missing

68 bodies have been recovered and 12 people have been rescued with many still missing as of Monday morning accordig to the Yemen chief for the International Organization for Migration.

African illegal immigrants wait to board a boat in the southern port city of Aden on September 26, 2016, before being deported to Somalia.
 Major genomic study reveals humanity's longest prehistoric migration from Africa to South America.

Major genomic study reveals humanity's longest prehistoric migration from Africa to South America

 Sub-Saharan African migrants gather in a field where they live, in Jebiniana, Tunisia September 4, 2023.

Hundreds of west African migrants returned from Tunisia through IOM program

 ERITREAN VOLUNTEERS work in Israeli agriculture in a joint project of ARDC and Leket Israel.

It is time to integrate African asylum seekers into Israeli society - opinion


Activists ask Israeli pilots to ‘refuse to fly refugees to their deaths’

‘We call on Israeli pilots to stand on the right side of history,’ says the petition.

An African migrant wears a T-shirt with a Hebrew phrase referring to the Holocaust," I promise to remember... and never forget!" in south Tel Aviv July 17, 2013.

Taking in African refugees is a privilege

The debate about African migrants in Israel kicked off as early as 2005 when asylum seekers began making the treacherous journey through the Sinai desert into Israel.

African migrants gesture behind a fence during a protest against Israel's detention policy towards them

Comment: Israel should reconsider hostile policy on African refugees

Israel was among the first signatories of the 1951 UN Convention on Refugees – and for a very important reason.

CHILDREN OF African asylum seekers play on a Tel Aviv beach on Independence Day

North American Jewish leaders: Please don’t deport Africans

A “line has been crossed.”

An African migrant wears a T-shirt with a Hebrew phrase referring to the Holocaust," I promise to remember... and never forget!" in south Tel Aviv July 17, 2013.

NGOs blast gov't plan for deportation or incarceration of African migrants

“The government has crossed a redline, and we see a lot of panic in the community."

An African migrant wears a T-shirt with a Hebrew phrase referring to the Holocaust," I promise to remember... and never forget!" in south Tel Aviv July 17, 2013.

15 migrants injured on Greek island as EU continues struggle with crisis

Arabs fight Afghans in ‘hellish’ refugee Lesbos camp.

A refugee cleans his tent in a makeshift camp on the Hungary-Serbia border, on the Serbian side of a transit zone set up by Hungarian authorities to filter refugees at Roszke, Hungary, September 2, 2016. Picture taken September 2, 2016

Rwanda says no to migrant deportation

Israel has the room, resources, and employment opportunities to successfully accommodate African asylum seekers already here.

AN AFRICAN migrant walks with his luggage after being released from Holot detention center in the Negev in 2015.

Knesset members vote to worsen migrant conditions ahead of deportation

Following the meeting, Amnesty International Israel called on the country to allow all the migrants to stay.

Residents of south Tel Aviv protest against African migrants living in their neighbourhood

Govt., not refugees, to blame for South Tel Aviv slums, residents say

“These people are not looking for problems; they wanted to flee violence and work hard to support themselves. Where is the humanity?”

AN AFRICAN MIGRANT street vendor waits for customers in South Tel Aviv in July.

Party leader Gabbay forces Zionist Union to back expulsion of migrants

Meretz leader Zehava Gal-On said Gabbay had “forgotten what it means to be a human being."

Labor leader Avi Gabbay speaks at a faction meeting