A Somalian mother and her six-year-old daughter were reunited after three years apart and now live together in Cyprus, thanks to efforts by the UN Migration Agency International Organization for Migration (IOM), which made the family reunification possible.
Laura Speranza, a baby girl born a year ago in Crotone after migrants rescued on a boat landed in Italy, has found her Somali grandmother and sister through the Italian Red Cross's Restoring Family Links service.
The number of migrants officially missing is higher than it has been for more than a decade. The German Red Cross reports that nearly 100,000 people are registered as missing as a result of war and persecution worldwide.
The UN Refugee Agency (UNCHR) said it has facilitated the voluntary return of more than 2,000 Somali refugees from Yemen, through a program called Assisted Spontaneous Returns (ASR) it started in 2017. Since the start of this year, 1,321 migrants from Somalians living in Yemen have returned home.
The United Kingdom is home to the largest Somali community in Europe, many of whom arrived in the 1990s or before. But the struggle for integration is ever present despite nearly 75 percent of the community possessing British citizenship. Emma Wallis looks into the reasons why.
A reported 150 Somali migrants were able to travel back to their home country from Libya with the support of UN agency International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the European Union. It was the fourth and largest such initiative as part of the program concerning the voluntary return of Somali citizens to their home country.
More than 100 migrants, including young children from the Horn of Africa, arrived in Italy this week. The migrants were flown to Rome via a 'humanitarian corridor' project begun in early 2016.
The Somali government, together with the EU and IOM has launched an initiative to support returnee migrants as they integrate back into their country of origin.
When civil war broke out in Somalia, Ali Hassan Suufi and his wife fled to Yemen. But after the Yemeni Civil War began they returned to their home country, which had been ravaged by terror and poverty.
Refugees on the Greek island of Samos are living in camps with little prospects of education or employment. Human smugglers have drowned migrants in Yemen on purpose and the German Christian Democratic Union supports a plan to send rejected asylum seekers back to Afghanistan.
More than 50 Ethiopians and Somalis are feared drowned off Yemen, allegedly after smugglers forced them to jump ship. It's the second such incident reported in two days; the first claimed at least 50 lives.
Up to 50 people believed to have been migrants from Somalia and Ethiopia have been "deliberately drowned" near Yemen. The UN's migration agency has called the killings "shocking and inhumane."