The Turkish interior ministry said they apprehended around 268,000 undocumented migrants in 2018. The ministry also released estimates for how many Syrian refugees have returned home: roughly 310,000. But more than ten times as many Syrians remain in the country.
Jeffery, a Nigerian who escaped Boko Haram in 2015 and came to Italy, has opened a rural museum in Italy along with a teaching farm. His enterprise won the Green Oscar from Coldiretti, an agricultural union in Italy, in 2018.
A new project aims to bring medical support to the most vulnerable Libyan children. It's sponsored by Terre des Hommes and Mediterranean Hope and financed by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation.
Employers in Italy who hire irregular migrants will now face a fine of 1,398 euros. This sanction is part of a new decree signed by several key ministers.
Italian police have broken up an organisation trafficked irregular migrants from southern Italy to northern Europe. The group was reportedly based in the former Olympic village in Turin. Police said the group moved dozens of foreigners throughout Europe for large sums of money.
Moussa Ba is not the first migrant to die in a shanty town in Italy. Dozens have died in these makeshift settlements, in particular in the southern regions of Calabria, Puglia and Sicily. Most of them were very young immigrants.
The UN agencies UNHCR and UNICEF have urged action to put an end to child statelessness in Europe. According to them, about 2,100 children were registered as stateless in 2017, a four-fold increase compared to 2010.
The City of Milan announced it will provide a registry for asylum seekers who are unable to register with the city registry due to exclusion by the country's new Salvini security decree. The announcement has been criticized by the center-right.
More than 3,500 migrants from The Gambia have returned home between 2017 and now, through an EU-IOM voluntary assisted return programme. It said about 2,000 of them have received reintegration assistance.
The Italian authorities have dismantled a Nigerian human trafficking ring that operated between Nigeria, Libya and Italy, forcing women and children to sell their bodies by using voodoo rituals as a form of coercion.
Italian authorities have been asked by the Netherlands to keep the NGO migrant rescue ship Sea Watch 3 in the port of Catania. The decision followed an inspection by Dutch authorities earlier this week.
The UN Refugee Agency says there has been an increase in the number of people fleeing South Sudan to the Democratic Republic of Congo in recent days, due to violence against civilians.