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31 dead in New Year’s migrant boat sinking off Gambia

On: January 6, 2026

The death toll has reached 31 after an overloaded boat capsized off the coast of The Gambia on New Year’s Eve, the Gambia Immigration Department said Monday. The boat, carrying about 200 undocumented migrants, set off late on Dec. 31 from The Gambia’s North Bank Region in an attemptContinue Reading

42 presumed dead in migrant boat shipwreck off Libyan coast: IOM

By: ghanaeyereport

On: November 12, 2025

In: World

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Wednesday that a rubber boat carrying 49 migrants and refugees capsized off the coast of Libya, leaving 42 people presumed dead. In a statement, the IOM said Libyan authorities carried out a search and rescue operation on Nov. 8 near theContinue Reading