Italy has announced that planes used by charities to track migrant boats in difficulty in the central Mediterranean will no longer be able to fly from airports on the islands of Sicily, Pantelleria and Lampedusa.
Italy’s premier Giorgia Meloni met with Libyan officials in Tripoli and Benghazi on Tuesday (May 7). Migration was high on the Italian delegation's agenda.
Investigators have broken up an international migrant smuggling network along Poland's border with Belarus, prosecutors say. Criminal proceedings have now been initiated against 36 suspected smugglers who reportedly hail from Poland1
Thousands of people continue to be affected by El Niño-triggered torrential rain and heavy flooding sweeping across East Africa, UNHCR warned in a statement last week.
Inspired by Pope Francis, Spanish bishops are calling for the shutdown of migrant detention centers, the establishment of legal migration pathways and laws allowing for smoother migrant integration.