A total of 4,931 children and unaccompanied minors arrived in the Canary Islands since the beginning of last year. The archipelago has requested support from other Iberian regions to help relocate them.
Morocco's army has stopped more than 1,100 migrants from reaching the Spanish exclaves of Ceuta and Melilla. Around 1,700 migrants managed to cross into the Spanish territories in Northern Africa in 2023.
The UK says there has been a 36% drop in the number of migrants arriving in small boats from 2022 after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced prioritizing stopping these arrivals.
Italian authorities have detained the Ocean Viking migrant rescue vessel for 20 days over its alleged failure to follow a prescribed route after rescuing dozens of people off the Libyan coast, the ship's operator SOS Mediterranee sa1
French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin has announced in a letter that from 1 January 2024, France will no longer accept new imams trained and sent by other countries. This in a bid to reduce "foreign influence" on Islam in France.