The French authorities rescued 225 migrants just before the weekend, as migrants continued crossing towards the UK. More than 1,400 crossed to the UK in the last week and more than 5,800 since the beginning of the year.
The Mediterranea Saving Humans NGO has said it was contacted by a man part of a large group of migrants abandoned along Tunisia's western border.
On Saturday, the Greek coast guard said it picked up a group of migrants after a smuggler deliberately threw some of them into the sea near the small island of Farmakonisi to evade capture.
The number of migrants in the Italian city of Ventimiglia is dropping but the hardships they are experiencing are increasing, according to a report presented on March 20 by associations providing assistance to migrants in the border1
On June 24, 2022, an attempt by mostly Sudanese migrants to force their way into Europe led to dozens of them being killed in the Spanish enclave of Melilla, on the border with Morocco. Nearly three years on, attempts to find out ex1