Migrants who had been forced to work in the fields in southern Italy for 25€ ($30) per day have been left homeless in the middle of winter after a fire burned down the camp in Calabria where they were living.
The IOM assisted 226 victims of human trafficking in Tunisia between 2012 and 2017. Tunisia's mufti, the country's highest religious authority, has meanwhile declared clandestine migration to be prohibited.
Six hours of top-level talks to forge a German coalition government have stalled over refugee issues. Negotiators adjourned at two in the morning saying only they were "determined to find solutions."
Italian Premier Paolo Gentiloni said Europe and Italy "need" secure migrant flows - without criminal exploitation and human trafficking - in order to face a demographic reality that is increasing older, with fewer births. Gentilon1
The government in Melilla is calling for a reform on the law on foreigners, to face "the flood" of unaccompanied minor migrants and to keep them in reception centers. The governor of the autonomous city in Morocco, Jose Imbroda, of1