Health officials in Yemen have recorded more than 200,000 suspected cases of cholera since January. Unseasonal rains along with rising temperatures are said to have caused a spike in the disease. They say they have seen the disease spreading among increasing numbers of African migrants and refugees entering the country. Source: aljazeera.com

Migrants have hijacked a merchant vessel that rescued them off Libya’s coast, ordering the crew to head towards Malta, reports say. More than 100 migrants aboard the cargo ship are said to have acted after being told they would be taken back to Libya. Malta’s military said the ship would not be allowed into its waters. Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister …

The Committee on Foreign Affairs in Parliament has urged the European Union (EU) member countries not to see Ghanaian migrants as criminals. It said the country’s migrants were economic migrants who wanted to secure decent work to raise funds to cater for their respective families back home. The Vice Chairman of the committee, Mr Kwaku Ampratwum Sarpong, and the Ranking …

  2 African migrants hiding in mattresses have been caught at Spanish border when immigration officers ordered that the items be cut open. Spanish border police may have been used to seeing various kinds of means in which desperate African migrants hide themselves in an attempt to enter the country, but this was considered entirely different. The trending video, recorded …