Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz argued that Operation Sophia promoted human trafficking. Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel said that EU vessels beholden to bloc laws would be better than independent NGO boats.
In the last few months, Morocco has ramped up arrests and clamped down on migration across its borders to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta. Now migrants still hoping to cross the border in order to reach the EU prefer to keep themselves1
The UN Refugee Agency UNHCR has denounced that recent violence in western Darfur has forced tens of thousands of people to flee, stressing that their living conditions are terrible.
Around 17% of participants of integration courses in Germany are illiterate; the vast majority of them are refugees, said the head of Germany’s immigration office BAMF in an interview with German media. Their integration into the la1
Four Syrians in the same family arrived in Italy via a humanitarian corridor. Their integration will be overseen by a charity A Braccia Aperte (With Open Arms) in Turin.