The Red Crescent retrieved on Sunday the bodies of 22 migrants near the Libyan coastal town of Zwara, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said. Last week dozens of migrants perished in what was the largest recorded sh1
A total of 1,400 migrants and refugees are currently on Lampedusa. Hundreds arrived in small boats last week. Migrant reception facilities on the Italian island have been overcrowded for several weeks.
Serbia is reportedly constructing a barbed-wire fence at its border with North Macedonia. Authorities in Belgrade have not yet commented on the issue.
The so-called "Orderly Return Law" (Geordnete-Rückkehr-Gesetz), which was enacted in Germany a year ago has failed to achieve its objective of raising the number of deportations in the first six months of its existence.
On Thursday, a new health center opened up for migrants in the infamously over-capacity Moria camp on the Greek island of Lesbos. It has the capacity to treat 62 people at a time, reports the German news agency dpa.