InfoMigrants

Blessing's tale: 'I hope the future will be brighter for me'

Blessing is originally from Nigeria. She arrived in Italy four years ago and was identified as having been a victim of human trafficking. She came to the social cooperative Proxima through a similar social project in Palermo. Now she's planning to move out of Proxima to live independently.

'I can't imagine the future' – Ajabana, 'exhausted' after nine months of detention in Libya

Ajabana* was arrested last January while demonstrating outside an administrative center of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in the Libyan capital. Since then, he has been locked up in the notorious Ain Zara prison. He described the nightmarish experience to InfoMigrants.

Lampedusa, the stories of migrants who survived shipwrecks

Survivors of shipwrecks in the Mediterranean told their stories during a meeting with European students at a recent event on Lampedusa to commemorate two deadly shipwrecks in 2013 in which some 390 migrants died.

'I look for him 24 hours a day': The story of Ryad, whose brother disappeared at sea

A little over a year ago, Skander, 21, boarded an inflatable boat on a beach in western Algeria, headed for Spain. Since then, there has been no sign of life from the young man and 11 other passengers. Skander's older brother Ryad, who stayed in Algeria, spends his days and nights looking for him.

Shipwreck survivor: 'I offered the children my food but they did not make it'

A recent shipwreck in the Aegean left six people dead, among them three children. Now Doctors Without Borders has released accounts from the survivors.