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'It hurts to admit I never went to school': Magdi, a Sudanese refugee in Paris

31-year-old Magdi Masaraa never went to school. After years of exile, this Sudanese has entered a special professional program at the prestigious Parisian institute, Sciences Po. For the student who had "no idea what subtraction was" when he first started school in 2020, the challenge is great. But he is determined to overcome the gap that he believes separates him from his peers.

'The soldiers wake us up at 6am. They come with dogs': Eric, inside a migrant camp in Lithuania

InfoMigrants contacted Eric*, an African migrant who has been locked up inside the Pabradé migrant camp in Lithuania for several months. He said he is under permanent pressure from the Lithuanian military in the camp, who harass the migrants to "go home".

Italy: Village pays for migrant dying of cancer to return to family

A young migrant dying from cancer had one last wish: To see his family in Ghana once more. So his village in Italy raised money for his flight. The Pope spoke of this story during his Sunday prayers.

'You do your asylum interview wearing handcuffs': Sekou in Lithuania

Many migrants who have arrived from neighboring Belarus are currently stuck in the Pabradé camp in Lithuania that many have compared to a prison. Sekou, an asylum seeker from Guinea, has been there for seven months. He says the living conditions are deplorable and that the asylum interviews are a "charade" with an automatically negative outcome.

'We decided to leave everything to get to a country with adequate hospitals'

Sangar and his wife Kanar left Iraqi Kurdistan in hopes of getting better medical care for their children. For months, the family was stuck at the Polish-Belarusian border desperate to reach the EU. This week, they finally arrived in Italy.