When Abdullah boarded an inflatable boat crammed with fellow migrants in February he thought he would finally reach Europe after braving the dangers of a Sahara crossing and Libya’s civil war. The 27-year-old from Niger knew the voyage ahead was risky. The Mediterranean waters between...

Ten years since the intoxicating early days of Tunisia's revolution, hopes for a better future lie crushed, and in the rural town where it began, few are celebrating. It was in Sidi Bouzid that Mohamed Bouazizi, a fruit and vegetable salesman angered by police harassment, set himself alight...

Iran, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia should pull out from war-torn Yemen where 24 million people, half of whom are children need urgent aid, experts said.  On March 2011, popular uprising erupted in Yemen against Ali Abdullah Salih who ruled the country for over 20 years....

The Libyan Red Crescent said the bodies of four children aged between five and 10 had washed ashore west of the capital Tripoli on Wednesday after a migrant boat sank. "We were informed (Wednesday) of a boat that was sinking on the high sea with 30 people on board" in the Zawiya area, the...