Police in Ventimiglia, Italy, have arrested five men on charges of belonging to an organized criminal group. The men allegedly spearheaded a human trafficking organization active on the Italy-France border.

A total of 76 Ethiopians stranded in Libya returned to their country through a voluntary repatriation program of the International Organization for Migration (IOM). It was the highest number of people repatriated from Libya so far.

Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has travelled to Tunis to meet with local authorities and talk about immigration. Salvini called the visit "fruitful," although Rome did not obtain the increase in repatriations it had hoped1

The NGO Irish Refugee Council has sounded the alarm over the lack of housing for asylum seekers in the country. The situation is turning those who are seeking protection into the homeless, the organization said.