A 22-year-old Eritrean who was among 91 migrants to arrive in the Sicilian port of Pozzallo on Monday has died due to the effects of hunger, sources said on Tuesday. He was on board a ship run by Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms.
Some 500,000 more people moved to Germany than left in 2016, Germany's statistics office says. The figure is less than half that of the previous year.
Some 10,000 people took part in a street demonstration in Florence to commemorate the life of Idy Diene, a Senegalese man who was killed on March 5, 2018.
Eleven European Catholic Caritas charities will join forces for a project funded by the European Union, to raise the public's awareness on migration issues.
The number of asylum applications filed in Germany has decreased in February by 23 percent compared to the same period last year. The backlog of unprocessed asylum applications was further reduced to a total of 55,279.