Police has arrested 17 people in several Italian cities. They are accused of smuggling migrants from sub-Saharan Africa and Libya through Italy to other European countries, mostly France, for over €1,000 per person.
Migration authorities in the Netherlands cannot hand over asylum seekers to Italy even if they entered Europe via that country, a court has ruled.
Italy's Interior Minister Matteo Piantedosi visited Lampedusa following several shipwrecks near the island. He promised local officials that a dedicated task force would be put together to deal with the large number of migrant arriv1
A group of 69 migrants and refugees disembarked from the NGO ship Humanity 1 in Ravenna, northern Italy, this week. Almost half of them were from Sudan.
A French court has ordered a stop to the clearance of a slum in the Indian Ocean island of Mayotte. But an operation to remove irregular migrants from the territory is continuing.