A child has died in the sea off Lesbos. The Greek coast guard reported that the boy was on a boat with about 47 other migrants attempting to reach the Greek island of Lesbos from Turkey. After the boat overturned, he was pulled from1
The UN migration agency, IOM, is handing out meal boxes and other basic supplies to migrants gathered at Turkey‘s western border with Greece. There are concerns for thousands of people camping out in the region in near-zero temperat1
The governments of both Austria and Hungary have issued firm statements following Turkish announcements that it has opened its borders to allow migrants and refugees on towards the EU. Both Austria and Hungary say they will defend t1
Malta is experiencing a record number of migrant arrivals in 2020, as 883 people have already arrived in the first two months of the year. That figure is around 16 times higher than the number of arrivals in the same period in 2019.
The humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has urged Italian authorities to let NGO-run vessels carry out rescue operations without quarantining them in connection with the coronavirus emergency. "Putting rescue ves1