The Drina River on the Bosnian-Serbian border is a bottleneck on the busy Balkan route. Some locals help migrants where they can, others see them as an opportunity to earn money. The authorities are overstretched.
After years of economic crisis, Iranians' frustration is increasingly directed at Afghan migrants. Under pressure to act, the government has now announced plans to deport 2 million Afghan refugees in the coming months.
Citing an overloaded asylum system, Germany on Monday started passport controls on all of its land borders to reduce irregular migration. Such measures are supposed to be the exception within the EU.
Reports of a group of Sierra Leonian migrants who remain missing after being abandoned in the desert by Tunisian authorities are raising alarm among human rights groups. Survivor accounts reveal severe mistreatment. Meanwhile, six m1
Libya's crisis-ridden economy benefits from thousands of Syrian refugees. Despite the country's lack of an official asylum policy and its dire human rights situation, Syrians tell DW that they found a new home in Libya.