At least 32 people, many of under the age of 18, died in the first three months of 2024 while trying to swim to the Spanish enclave Melilla, according to the NGO Solidary Wheels.

Eighteen-year-old Manneh Nafugi, an asylum seeker from Gambia, died in Italy's northern Piedmont region two days after being beaten with sticks and a chain.

Lebanon hosts more than two million displaced Syrians, the highest number of refugees per capita of any country in the world. Amid a crippling economic crisis, many Lebanese want them to leave. DW's Mohamad Chreyteh reports.

The Irish government has announced it will send asylum seekers who arrive over the border with Northern Ireland back to the United Kingdom by the end of May. The British authorities have said they do not want to accept returns.