A new building will open at the migrant hotspot on the Italian island of Lampedusa next week, following renovations. Now the center will provide room for 328 migrants instead of just 192.
A boat carrying mainly Senegalese migrants washed up in the Cape Verde archipelago off West Africa on Sunday night after being adrift at sea for several days. Several hundred more migrants also arrived in the Canary Islands.
A court in Italy has ruled that it is discriminatory to exclude foreigners without a long-term stay permit from the government's nursery school allowance. Italian authorities must now allow anyone with a legal stay permit access to1
Algerian migrants have reportedly clashed at a migrant reception centre in Monastir, Sardinia, injuring four people. Police have warned that migrants are 'crammed together' in the center and have not been tested for COVID-19.
A illegal encampment housing some 2,000 asylum-seekers from conflict zones like Somalia and Aghanistan was cleared by police. Migrant advocates worry the camp's inhabitants will end up back on the street.