The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi is visiting Turkey. The country hosts the largest number of refugees worldwide, including more than 3.5 million Syrians and hundreds of thousands of Afghans.
About 90 Afghan nationals who had been evacuated by the US Army and taken to the Ramstein US air base have applied for asylum in Germany. The number of Afghan asylum applicants in Germany continues to rise sharply.
Germany’s interior ministry has said that it is observing the increasing number of asylum seekers from the Republic of Moldova coming to Germany with concern, especially in the capital, Berlin.
Almost 5,000 Ethiopian migrants are stuck in Yemen while awaiting a chance to return home safely. This week about 300 of them are scheduled to leave Aden for Addis Abeba on two humanitarian flights run by IOM.
Administration of COVID vaccines began Tuesday in an asylum seeker reception center in the port city of Bari in Italy's southern province Puglia. A total of 400 people have signed consent forms to be given the vaccine.