A new report has found that 22 branches of Germany's federal migration office have asylum approval rates vastly below the national average. Critics say a lack of oversight and transparency has exacerbated the problem.
The film 'Bar Giuseppe' tells the story of an Italian widower and an African migrant who fall in love. It was recently screened at the Rome Film Festival.
A group of NGOs in Italy and the Balkans have denounced that migrants along the Balkan migrant route continue to be illegally expelled from one state to the next. The Commissioner for Human Rights at the Council of Europe meanwhile1
Local authorities in the town of Bihac in Bosnia-Herzegovina have cut off the water supply to the nearby Vucjak migrant camp. They want to force the government to move migrants from the overcrowded site.
154 Somali refugees were sent to Germany from Ethiopia last week. The resettlement was made possible through a program run by the German and Ethiopian governments, the UN migration agency, and the UN refugee agency.