German police say 26 officers were among those injured after violence on the sidelines of an Eritrean event in Stuttgart. Tensions run deep within the diaspora over the eastern African nation's polarized politics.

Tunisian authorities expelled hundreds of sub-Saharan African migrants from the port of Sfax Sunday after they were thrown out of their homes during unrest in July, a rights group said.

The German interior minister is pushing for an EU-wide extension of special protection status for those who have fled Ukraine. At the same time, her handling of asylum seekers from other countries has attracted criticism.

Matteo Villa, a researcher at Milan's Institute for International Political Studies, spoke to ANSA about the recent record-high number of migrants on the Italian island of Lampedusa. He says the present migration "wave" cannot be st1