More and more human rights groups, NGOs and international bodies are joining calls to free three migrants who convinced the captain of a merchant ship to not return more than 100 migrants to Libya two years ago. Meanwhile, a new report Malta and the EU's treatment of migrants overall.
Migrants in a detention center in Corinth have staged protests after a man in the camp reportedly committed suicide at the weekend. InfoMigrants received messages on Saturday confirming the man's death.
Germany deported more than 750 people to Africa in 2020. Most African countries are ill-prepared to welcome rejected asylum seekers, and the coronavirus could make matters worse, activists say.
The UN migration agency, IOM, says that more than two-thirds of West African migrants returning to their home countries are in financial debt. Many also feel that shame prevents them from reintegrating in their communites, an IOM study has found.
InfoMigrants has learnt that one of the victims in Tuesday's shipwreck off Libya had been in contact with us back in March. At least 43 people died in the accident. Souleymane came from Guinea and had been in Libya for the last three years. This was his fourth attempt to cross the Mediterranean.
A French baker's apprentice from Guinea has been granted a residency permit. His employer had gone on hunger strike to protest against his deportation; the campaign drew global attention.
Stéphane Ravacley, a baker in the town of Besançon in eastern France, has been on hunger strike since 3 January to protest the planned deportation of his young Guinean apprentice. A petition has been launched and city hall mayor has asked Interior ministry to cancel his deportation.
Near the Louvre Museum in Paris, an unusual housing project is underway. Eleven refugees and thirteen French people are spending a year living together as a unique 'family'.
A year ago, Alpha Diallo's life changed. The 41-year-old refugee from Guinea started an internship at Leroy Merlin, one of more than 120 companies included in the UNHCR project 'Welcome: Working for Refugee Integration'.
Four years ago, Amadou Diallo arrived in Greece as a 16-year-old unaccompanied child from Guinea. Since arriving he has fought hard for his education and the right to asylum. Finally, at the end of July, after several failed attempts he was granted not only the right to asylum in Greece but with it, the path to take up a university scholarship in Paris.
Migrants and refugees in the EU can apply to reunite with their children and bring them to Europe if the children are minors. But what if they reach majority during the proceedings? They can still be reunited with their parents, because what matters is the age they were when the application was filed, the European Court of Justice has ruled.
Unaccompanied minors made up 7% of all asylum applications in 2019, according to the EU's statistics office, Eurostat. The number, however, is about 20% down from applications filed the previous year.