The only Catholic church on the Greek island of Lesbos has become a haven for many African migrants who have crossed the Aegean Sea from Turkey. Traveling through Turkey is an increasingly popular route for African migrants heading to Europe who are desperate to avoid torture and slavery on their journey through Libya.
InfoMigrants met Hussein on his 18th birthday. Full of enthusiasm, the young man told us what brought him to Lesbos and his experience of being an unaccompanied minor on the Greek island.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) used a "humanitarian mechanism" for the first time ever in Europe to vaccinate refugee children on the Greek islands. The procedure provides a vaccine against pneumonia at a reduced price, in this case nine euros per child, rather than the hundreds of dollars it can normally cost.
It has become increasingly difficult for refugees to make their way from Greece to Central Europe. Even in the face of police violence and the risk of arrest, thousands still embark on the dangerous journey.
One woman reportedly died as a boat overturned on the rocky coast of the Greek island of Samos. 50 migrants survived.
Kelly Clements is Deputy High Commissioner for the UN Refugee Agency UNHCR. She sat down with InfoMigrants' Emma Wallis to talk about her work and about how she and her team are working to empower refugees around the world.
Claire Paccalin on the Greek island of Lesbos meets a family struggling to keep their lives together while living in the Moria refugee camp.
The damp containers and tents of Moria Camp on Lesbos feel like a dead-end for many migrants and refugees, who have traveled weeks or months and paid people-smugglers often large sums of money to reach the European Union. Faced with criticism over poor living conditions, the camp’s director tells InfoMigrants he and his team are "doing our best, but we have new arrivals all the time."
The German government, responding to clashes between migrants and police on the Greek-Turkish border on Friday April 5, has promised to act quicker to quell misinformation about migration and migration routes on the web.
Greek authorities have used tear gas to disperse migrants who gathered on the country's border with Northern Macedonia in hopes of crossing into the Balkans. In the Greek capital Athens, police clashed with migrant protesters squatting on the tracks of the city's main train station. Authorities in Turkey, too, clashed with migrants mobilizing on the border with Greece.
Arrivals continue on eastern Aegean islands but outlook on funding for housing projects is uncertain.
The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, was set up with a temporary mandate in 1950. Nearly 70 years later it is still trying to empower refugees and improve their situations wherever they are. InfoMigrants spoke with Deputy High Commissioner Kelly Clements when she was in Bonn, and asked her about the situation in Europe.