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Latest updates, press releases, and media coverage on border issues

The events that defined migration in 2025 ààlà Posts
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February 04, 2026 5 min read

The events that defined migration in 2025

Throughout 2025, InfoMigrants followed the political developments across Europe as well as in transit countries for migrants. While European countries like Greece and the United Kingdom hardened their...

Inside South Africa's battle against illegal migration ààlà Posts
February 04, 2026 5 min read

Inside South Africa's battle against illegal migration

During the 2024/25 festive season, border guards screened millions of travellers and intercepted thousands attempting to enter South Africa illegallyI...

Top 10 African Countries with the Most Open Visa Policies in 2025 ààlà Posts
February 04, 2026 5 min read

Top 10 African Countries with the Most Open Visa Policies in 2025

Table of Contents10. Sierra Leone9. Burundi8. Mauritius7. Mozambique6. Cabo Verde5. Ghana4. Benin3. Kenya2. Rwanda1. The GambiaIn SummaryVisa openness...

Africa’s Invisible Walls: The Hidden Barriers to Continental Integration ààlà Posts
January 31, 2026 5 min read

Africa’s Invisible Walls: The Hidden Barriers to Continental Integration

By Ziad HamouiWhen a Nigerian general recently floated the idea of fencing the country’s borders to combat terrorism, the response was swift and unfor...

Africa’s single market will fail without a supranational court ààlà Posts
January 31, 2026 5 min read

Africa’s single market will fail without a supranational court

Picture this: over a century ago, in the stately halls of Berlin, seven European powers, Britain, France, Portugal, Germany, Belgium, Spain, and Italy...

Afar tribe seeks Israeli support amid Iranian expansion and Eritrean repression ààlà Posts
January 25, 2026 5 min read

Afar tribe seeks Israeli support amid Iranian expansion and Eritrean repression

The name of the Sunni Afar tribe, spread across the Horn of Africa—in Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti—made headlines in February of last year after Yem...

Reimagining African Borders as Bridges, Not Barriers ààlà Posts
January 25, 2026 5 min read

Reimagining African Borders as Bridges, Not Barriers

By Wafula OkumuThe 1.9-kilometre Senegambia bridge has significantly improved cross-border relations between Senegal and The Gambia. Source: Ventures...

How to turn Nigeria into true federation ààlà Posts
January 11, 2026 5 min read

How to turn Nigeria into true federation

August 18, 2021 By Jerome-Mario Utomi THERE are many reasons Nigeria must take the present call for restructuring seriously. It is in the long-term in...

Need to uphold principle of intangibility of borders inherited at independence ààlà Posts
January 11, 2026 5 min read

Need to uphold principle of intangibility of borders inherited at independence

20 August 2021 Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs and National Community Abroad, Ramtane Lamamra, on Thursday stressed the necessity to scrupulously...

Would redrawing of regional borders make Uganda happy? ààlà Posts
January 11, 2026 5 min read

Would redrawing of regional borders make Uganda happy?

24 August 2021 By Joachim Buwembo We Ugandans love history.This love for things past almost led us to war with Kenya in 1976. Our gallant president th...