The UN Migration Agency (IOM) has confirmed that Libyan authorities brought at least 590 migrants back to Libya in just under a week. Meanwhile, the Moroccan Navy says it has rescued 105 migrants in the last few days.
The Italian ombudsman for detainees said that migrant arrivals in Italy have seen a large increase in recent years and that they "will not decrease in the next few years". Spaking to the country's parliament he urged for legal pathw1
The Serbian authorities reported in late June that there were just over 7,000 refugees in the country, a 55% increase over the same period of the previous year, mostly due to the war in Ukraine.
A Tunisian human rights group has denounced the dismantlement of a migrant and refugee sit-in protest outside the UNHCR offices in the Tunisian capital on Saturday. The UNHCR says it was part of an agreed transfer with protestors.
Lebanon says that Syrian refugees may be expelled from the country if the international community does not repatriate them. But a UN representative in Turkey warned this week that conditions in Syria are not suitable for return.