Berlin reportedly plans to cut funding for its "one-euro job" employment scheme for refugees. The Institute for Labor Market estimates meanwhile that 50 percent of refugees will be employed within five years of arrival.
Civilians from four Syrian towns have begun leaving their homes after bombing over the weekend. South Sudanese refugees held UN staff hostage in Congo, but set them free soon after and a documentary tells the story of a refugee from1
Lampedusa Mayor Giusy Nicolini on Wednesday was awarded UNESCO's Houphouet-Boigny peace prize in Paris alongside French NGO SOS Méditerranée for saving countless migrants and refugees and receiving them on the Italian island.
Former South Sudanese militants took 13 staff members hostage at a UN camp in eastern Congo, later releasing them without injury. Kinshasa has tried repeatedly to move them, but no other nation will take them in.
The Italian Coast Guard and NGO crews have rescued thousands of refugees from the Mediterranean over the weekend. Australia wants to put an end to its visa program for skilled workers and the South Sudan crisis has resulted in an em1