Around 64,000 people are considered missing in Africa — almost half of them children. War, disasters and crises tear families apart. Many dream of being reunited with their loved ones. But where should the search start?
The medical humanitarian charity Doctors without Borders (MSF) runs a special clinic in Palermo, Sicily, for migrant survivors of torture and violence on their way to Italy. InfoMigrants went to meet those who run it.
On the eve of the opening of the Italian parliament, former Ivorian migrant Aboubakar Soumahoro has said he wants to make sure no one has to live on the streets like he did. That’s bound to put him at odds with Italy’s new rulers.
With the number of people fleeing to Germany this year set to exceed the 1.2 million who arrived in 2015-2016, the government is under growing pressure to avert a "refugee crisis".
The Sicilian region is working hard to try and crack down on the exploitation of migrant agricultural workers by the so-called gangmaster (caporalato) system. Several campaigns aim at bestowing more rights on migrant workers and enc1