Vol 59 No 25 | MIGRATION Not waltzing in Vienna 21st December 2018 A European Union-African Union meeting in Vienna on digital policy co-operation in the week before Christmas was always likely to be low on excitement, but it did confirm the gulf ...
Vol 59 No 22 | EUROPEAN UNIONAFRICAMIGRATION Don't call them transit camps 9th November 2018 European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker officially abandoned the idea that the European Union was trying to set up migrant camps in North Africa during a visit to Tunisia...
Vol 57 No 21 | EUROPEAN UNIONMIGRATION Shifting borders south 21st October 2016 The European Union is set to intensify its migration control regime at a summit of EU leaders on 20 October. The European Commission will present reports on the Migration Partnersh...
Vol 57 No 18 | MIGRATION EU tiptoes into minefield 9th September 2016 Brussels quarrels with African governments on migration while development aid is diverted into border protection European governments are still struggling to contain the flow of unofficial migration from Africa, and to find effective and fair means to send home most of those who manage to cro...
Vol 57 No 6 | MIGRATION Can't stay, can't go 4th March 2016 The number of African migrants into Europe increases because few are deported and their home governments do not want them back Europe and Africa are locked in a diplomatic impasse: the European Union wants to deport illegal immigrants but their governments won't take them back. December's Valletta Summit c...
Vol 50 No 7 | LIBYAWEST AFRICAMIGRATION Aller-retour 3rd April 2009 Huge numbers of West Africans hope to make a living abroad but find barriers in neighbouring countries and the rich West The loss of more than 200 lives on 30 March, when a ship carrying African migrants to Europe sank off the coast of Libya, prompted calls for rich countries to ease their strictures...
Vol 50 No 7 | LIBYAAFRICAMIGRATION Libya and its African brothers 3rd April 2009 The row in Africa over migration weakens progress towards the African Union's aims of the free movement of people, goods and services across the continent, says Albert Ouédraogo, C...