A human rights group in Morocco has said authorities are busing would-be migrants away from departure points to Europe. The EU has said it wants to work more closely with North African nations to decrease migration.
Alarm Phone is an independent support hotline connecting migrant boats in distress with local coast guards to ensure quick and effective rescue operations.
A protest in Huelva in southern Spain put a spotlight on the dire conditions of migrant farmers in the Spanish farming business. The problem is widespread: Hundreds of migrant women working in the farming sector suffer abuses - not only in Spain, but also in Italy and Morocco, as an investigative report revealed.
A total of 430,000 farm workers are exposed to exploitation by gang masters, according to a recent report published by the observatory Rizzotto. In addition, 132,000 of them are socially vulnerable. Up to 39 percent of farm workers are hired illegally, according to the report.
The men were being driven home after picking tomatoes when their van crashed into an oncoming truck. The second such crash in two days, it highlights the precarious working conditions foreign laborers face in Italy.
The Sarost 5 with 40 migrants onboard and stuck at sea for the past two weeks will be able to land in Tunisia, Prime Minister Youssef Chahed announced on Sunday. In the meantime, the Spanish NGO Open Arms who returned to within a few miles of the ship to offer assistance has left the area.
Libyan prime minister Fayez al-Serraj has said that the country is not willing to have EU migrant centers built in its territory under any circumstances and that no agreements will be signed to take back refugees from the EU.
Over the weekend, another 400 migrants were rescued in the Mediterranean and brought to regions in the south of Spain. According to IOM, Spain has become the new main destination of irregular migrants.
The difficulties, hopes and the fear of drowning imbue the stories of the migrants who landed on the Italian coast over the weekend. One of them, a woman, weighs only 35 kilos.
Kashif is from Pakistan. He migrated to Germany with many plans and goals he wanted to pursue. Looking at how things worked out for him, he asks himself: Was is worth it?
Every day for several months, dozens of people have been streaming into Bosnia, a small impoverished country in the Balkans. The migrants are trying to reach Croatia, the next step on their journey to the European Union. Bosnia is overwhelmed and unprepared to deal with this large influx of people, while NGOs fear the country is on the brink of a “humanitarian crisis.” InfoMigrants went to Bihac and Velika Kledusha, two villages bordering Croatia, where more than 2,500 migrants are living in terrible conditions.
The International Organzation for Migration (IOM) has expressed concern for the the fate of the stranded migrants in the no man's land between Algeria and Niger. IOM Director General William Lacy Swing said the number of migrants making the dangerous journey there is on the rise.