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.