Spanish rescue services say they found at least one deceased person on a rubber dinghy with 42 other migrants on board. They were brought to Lanzarote in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
The Italian government has handed over a search and rescue boat to Libya's foreign minister in northeastern Italy. The cooperation between the EU and Libya is highly controversial due to migrants' inhuman treatment in Libya.
For her 'open door' refugee policy in 2015, the former German chancellor will be awarded the Felix Houphouet-Boigny UNESCO Peace Prize in Ivory Coast.
A court in Morocco has increased the sentences of eight migrants convicted over a tragic incident on the border with the Spanish enclave of Melilla last June. The men face up to four years in prison for crimes including illegal entr1
A Moroccan man who tried to smuggle 15 men out of Britain and back to Spain has been jailed for people smuggling, according to a British newspaper.