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People perform prayers in Ben Guerdane, Tunisia, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2026, before a burial for migrants who drowned at sea after their boat capsized off the country's southeastern coast. (AP Photo/Bassem Aouini)

Fewer migrants are reaching Europe by sea but more people are dying, IOM warns

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This photo released by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) shows displaced Yemenis arriving to Obock, Djibouti, after they crossed the Bab el-Mandeb Strait from Yemen, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2026. (Mylaèle Negga/IOM via AP)

Yemen fuel shortage hampers migrants trying to flee conflict for the safety of Djibouti

By Evelyne Musambi - Associated Press

FILE-- Migrants from Syria and Libya in a wooden boat call for help as they are assisted by Spanish NGO Open Arms during a rescue operation inside Malta's SAR zone south of the Italian island of Lampedusa in the Mediterranean sea, Thursday, Aug. 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Over 80 migrants are missing from a boat that capsized after leaving Libya, U.N. says

By Fatma Khaled - Associated Press

FILE - Migrants from Eritrea, Libya and Sudan sail a wooden boat before being assisted by aid workers of the Spanish NGO Open Arms, in the Mediterranean sea, about 30 miles north of Libya, Saturday, June 17, 2023. (AP Photo/Joan Mateu Parra, File)

At least 42 migrants presumed dead after boat capsizes off Libya, says U.N.

By Fatma Khaled - Associated Press

Oumar Bella Diallo, a returnee, poses for a portrait at his workplace in Conakry, Guinea, Sept. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Misper Apawu)

Thousands of Africans returned home through an EU program. Many say they’ve been abandoned

By Monika Pronczuk - Associated Press

FILE - In this image made from video, Mozambican soldiers ride on an armored vehicle in a convoy driving to Mocimboa da Praia, Cabo Delgado province, Mozambique, Aug. 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Marc Hoogsteyns, file)

Islamic State-linked fighters displace over 46,000 people in northern Mozambique, U.N. says

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Millions of people and hundreds of staff impacted by U.S. aid cuts, U.N. migration agency says

By Renata Brito - Associated Press

A masked, armed gang member poses for a photo at the National Cemetery during the Fete Gede festival celebrating Day of the Dead to honor the Haitian Vodou spirits Baron Samedi and Gede in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Nov. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

U.N. migration agency says gang violence in Haiti leads to tripling of internally displaced people

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People displaced by armed attacks receive food from a nongovernmental organization in Saint-Marc, Haiti, Sunday, Oct. 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

Over 6,000 people in Haiti leave their homes after gang attack killed dozens

By Pierre-Richard Luxama and Eléonore Hughes - Associated Press

A group claiming to be from India sit in the shade of the border wall as they wait to be picked up by Border Patrol after crossing through the border fence in the Tucson Sector of the U.S.-Mexico border, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023, in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument near Lukeville, Ariz. U.S. Customs and Border Protection reports that the Tucson Sector is the busiest area of the border since 2008 due to smugglers abruptly steering migrants from Africa, Asia and other places through some of the Arizona borderlands' most desolate and dangerous areas. (AP Photo/Matt York)

U.N. calls U.S.-Mexico border world’s deadliest; lax Biden rules lure migrants into danger

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Deputy Homeland Security Adviser Amy Pope listens as President Barack Obama speaks in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, May 20, 2016. International Organization for Migration chief Antonio Vitorino of Portugal faces what is poised to be a tight race against his Biden administration-backed American deputy, Amy Pope, as the Geneva-based organization chooses a new director-general on Monday, May 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Election at UN migration agency pits its European chief against his American deputy

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

Police check a fishing boat with some 500 migrants in the southern Italian port of Crotone, early Saturday, March 11, 2023. The Italian coast guard was responding to three smugglers boats carrying more than 1,300 migrants “in danger” off Italy’s southern coast, officials said Friday. Three small coast guard boats were rescuing a boat with 500 migrants about 70 nautical miles off the Calabria region, which forms the toe of the Italian boot. (AP Photo/Valeria Ferraro)

Italy estimates 680K migrants might cross sea from Libya

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

FILE - A migrants makeshift camp is set up in Calais, northern France, on Nov. 27, 2021. The U.N. migration agency says the coronavirus pandemic has “radically altered” mobility around the world, projecting in a new report that the growth in the number of international migrants is likely to remain weaker as long as travel and other restrictions remain. (AP Photo/Rafael Yaghobzadeh)

UN migration agency: COVID has ‘radically altered’ mobility

By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

The Chief of Staff of the International Organization for Migration, Eugenio Ambrosi, talks to the media at a migrants camp in Lipa near Bihac, Western Bosnia, Wednesday, April 21, 2021. A senior U.N. migration official on Wednesday urged respect of international standards and an end to any abuse against migrants and refugees crossing borders while searching for a better future. Ambrosi called on governments to correct any wrongdoing affecting people fleeing war and poverty. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)

Senior UN migration official visits migrant camps in Bosnia

By DARKO BANDIC - Associated Press

Hundreds of migrants intercepted off the coast of Libya

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Migrants demand international probe into deadly Yemen fire

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

UN urges Yemen’s rebels to allow access to injured migrants

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

UN says fire in Yemeni migrant detention center kills 8

By SAMY MAGDY - Associated Press

UN agency: Libyan navy intercepts over 800 EU-bound migrants

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Migrants, most of them from Eritrea, react as they wait to be assisted by aid workers of the Spanish NGO Open Arms, after fleeing Libya on board a precarious wooden boat in the Mediterranean sea, about 110 miles north of Libya, on Saturday, Jan. 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Joan Mateu)

UN agency: Libyan navy intercepts over 80 EU-bound migrants

By NOHA ELHENNAWY - Associated Press