• Greece
• Italy
• Libya

Refugees on Lesbos continue their hunger strike. The EU attempts to stem migration by limiting boat sales to Libya and Italy is evaluating the option of temporary migrant visas. This and more in today's news roundup.

• Libya

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, described conditions in Libyan migrant detention centres as "terrible". He urged to establish reception centres instead.

• Libya

EU foreign ministers have introduced restrictions in a bid to counter human-trafficking. More than 100,000 migrants have crossed the Mediterranean since the start of the year, with 85,000 landing in Italy.

• Libya

Video shot in Garaboli, Libya. Migrants talk about the suffering they have endured and speak out warnings to other migrants.

• Italy
• Libya

Over 19 Egyptian migrants have been found dead in the Libyan desert. Migrant doctor Pietro Bartolo speaks to InfoMigrants about the suffering of arriving migrants. In Jordan, a course teaches Syrian refugees how to preserve their cultural heritage. This and more in today's roundup.

• Libya

Some 40 migrants, including children, were feared drowned after their inflatable boat sank off the Libyan coast. Tens of thousands of desperate people continue to risk their lives for a chance at a better life in Europe.

• Egypt
• Libya

The Red Crescent humanitarian body has said it recovered the decomposed bodies of 19 Egyptian migrants. They appear to have been smuggled into Libya but it remained unclear where they were going when they died.

• Libya

In October 2014, Italy ended its Mare Nostrum operation to rescue stricken migrants in the Mediterranean. With thousands of lives at risk, one man decided to take matters into his own hands. Klaus Vogel left his job at the merchant navy, chartered a boat and with his crew started to save people making the dangerous crossing from the Libyan coast. Thus the NGO "SOS Mediterranean" was born. To date, it has saved at least 18,000 migrants. Klaus Vogel tells FRANCE 24 his incredible story.

• Libya

Migrants in Libya share their stories of violence, illegal detention, rape, and torture in a report released Thursday by Oxfam, Borderline Sicilia, and the Italian non-profit Doctors for Human Rights (MEDU).

• Estonia
• Italy
• Libya

EU interior ministers meet in Tallinn, Estonia, to discuss possible solutions to the migrant crisis. Meanwhile, Amnesty International criticizes the EU for its restrictive measures, and the UNHCR wants to boost its presence in southern Libya, a migrant transit region on the way to Tripoli and Europe. This and more in today's news roundup.

• Libya

The UNHCR will soon open 'antennas' in the areas of Kufra, Gatrun and Sebha, stages on the migrant route from Niger and Sudan towards the coast at Tripoli, the main departure point for Europe.

• Italy
• Libya

The ministers of the interior of Italy, France and Germany have agreed on the need to introduce a code of conduct for NGOs operating in the Mediterranean and improve conditions in migrant detention centres in Libya. However, NGOs insist that they will continue rescuing migrants.