Insaf Boughdiri (left) is one of many Tunisians who have decided to move to Rwanda for work | Photo: Insaf Boughdiri
  • Rwanda
  • Tunisia

Instead of migrating to EU, Tunisians build new lives in southern Africa

With Europe increasingly reluctant to take in job-seeking migrants, many Tunisians are moving to sub-Saharan countries for work.

Tapash Sarkar died in Montenegro recently, after leaving Greece. InfoMigrants spoke with his brother about him | Photo: Private
  • Bangladesh
  • Montenegro

Body of a Bangladeshi migrant left behind near Albanian border
A sign for the former RAF base in Linton-on-Ouse Village Hall, North Yorkshire, local residents are meeting to discuss a Home Office proposed asylum seeker center at a nearby former RAF air base | Photo credit: Danny Lawson/PA Wire
  • United Kingdom

UK government scraps plans to house asylum seekers in former air base

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Policemen cover the body of Mustafe Hamed Abdi, a young Somali man hit by a tanker while he was at a bus stop in Ancona, August 8, 2022 | Photo: Marina Verdenelli / ANSA
  • Italy
  • Somalia

Undocumented Somali man dies in Italy after applying for asylum
From file: A soldier of the Latvian National Armed Forces (NAF) patrols along a new barbed wire fence on the state border with Belarus in Kraslava region, Latvia | Photo: Valda Kalnina / archive / EPA
  • Belarus
  • Latvia
  • Lithuania

Latvia extends state of emergency at border
From file: Migrants arrive on the Calabrian coast over the weekend [June 18-19, 2022] | Photo: Albano Angiletta / Italy Photo Press / Imago
  • Germany
  • Italy

Germany to take in migrants from Italy under EU solidarity mechanism
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Features

Police at the crime scene in Pisa, Tuscany, where a Moroccan was stabbed and killed by an undocumented Tunisian man with a criminal record. Aug. 7 2022 | Photo: Gabriele Masiero / ANSA
  • Italy

Italy debates violence and migration ahead of the elections
League leader Matteo Salvini visits Lampedusa ahead of the Italian elections on September 25 | Photo: David Lohmueller / picture alliance / ASSOCIATED PRESS
  • Italy
  • Tunisia

Salvini campaigns on immigration ticket ahead of Italian elections
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz paid a visit to Cologne in May | Photo: Bundespresseamt (German federal press office)
  • Germany
  • Ukraine

Is support for Ukrainian refugees waning in Germany?
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Personal stories

The Escape Diaries: 'I feel hurt; my education and life have been shattered'

In the second part of her story, Ghanaian medical student Dorcas Djabatey, who was studying in Ukraine before the war broke out, talks about her escape from Sumy, why she feels let down and her future.

The Escape Diaries: 'The thirst to be successful led me to Ukraine'

Nigerian student Collins Okoro came to Ukraine with the hopes that it would catapult his career but now the war has changed that. But could Berlin offer better opportunities? Here is his story.

The Escape Diaries: 'Going to Ukraine was a life-long dream'

When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, Ghanaian student Dorcas Djabatey decided to wait it out. But as days turned to weeks, it became clear that she had to get out of the country, putting her dream of becoming a medical doctor in limbo. Here's her story of escape and hope.

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Understanding Europe

Migrants rescued by the humanitarian group Sea-Eye arrive in Messina, Italy, on June 22, 2022 | Photo: Gabriele Maricchiolo/NurPhoto/picture alliance
  • Italy

Terms and acronyms that asylum seekers need to know in Italy
French Interior inister Gérald Darmanin seen in Calais on November 28, 2021 | Photo: Reuters
  • France

France: Everything to know about the deportation of foreigners - with or without papers
A person holding up a certificate of a 'Duldung' | Photo: Wolfgang Kumm/dpa/picture-alliance
  • Germany

Explainer: What Germany's asylum reform means for migrants with a 'Duldung'
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The European Union

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  • Ukraine
  • European Union

Are you seeking refuge from the war in Ukraine? Beware of human traffickers when on the move
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  • Ukraine
  • European Union

Information for people fleeing the war in Ukraine
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  • European Union

Fighting migrant smuggling: 2021-2025 EU action plan

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