In the past two years, more migrants have traveled by boat to Yemen from the Horn of Africa than crossed the Mediterranean. Thousands of them are now trapped and facing multiple risks from the ongoing civil war, the threat of COVID-19, and abuse by human traffickers.
Police in Paris have evacuated more than 1,250 people from a migrant camp on the bank of a canal in the suburb of Aubervilliers. Migrant support groups condemned the move and said permanent solutions needed to be found.
A young Afghan man has been stabbed to death near the Moria camp on the Greek island of Lesbos. This year, fatal knife attacks have been happening at an average rate of one a month.
Hundreds of people continue to arrive in boats on the southern Italian island of Lampedusa. In recent days about a thousand migrants, most from Tunisia, have landed on the island.
83 migrants, including more than a dozen sick children, have been flown to Germany from Greece. The migrants are the latest group to be relocated from overcrowded Greek camps under a government commitment to shelter hundreds of vulnerable people.
Germany will support a new European effort to stop migrants arriving in Europe. The joint platform will focus mainly on migrants trying to enter via Turkey and Greece.
Spanish maritime rescue and civil guard teams are continuing to search for scores of migrants reportedly trying to cross by boat to the Canary Islands from western Africa. At least 190 people are understood to have attempted the crossing in the past week.
A third lifeless body has been sighted floating in the Mediterranean Sea off the Libyan coast. Civil society groups have had no response to calls for action to recover and bury the bodies.
The transfer of a group of unaccompanied migrant children from Greece to Portugal this week has brought them a step closer to a life of safety. But as thousands of children remain behind in squalid migrant camps, their mental health is being pushed to breaking point.
In the Moria camp on the island of Lesbos a young man has died after he was stabbed during a fight. The medical charity MSF says conditions in the migrant camp created the ‘perfect storm’ for violence.
52 people rescued from the Mediterranean on Saturday remain stranded on a livestock transport ship, MV Talia. Both Italy and Malta have denied them permission to disembark.
Greece has extended a coronavirus lockdown on its migrant camps for the fifth time. The move has prompted accusations that the government is using the pandemic to limit the migrants' movement.