Italy has given permission for 140 migrants to disembark the Spanish rescue ship Open Arms. Over the past two days more than 100 migrants jumped off the rescue ship stranded off Sicily and tried to swim to shore.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says the Dublin Regulation will be replaced with a new migration plan, to be revealed next week. Under the current rules, the EU country an asylum seeker first enters is responsible for their claim, meaning states such as Italy and Greece take a much larger share.
Kikeme Blessing arrived in Italy in 2017 and is now living with an Italian couple in the southern town of Restinco thanks to Refugees Welcome Italia, an organization that finds private accommodation for refugees.
At the French-Italian border, dozens of migrants from all walks of life are prevented every day from crossing into France. A fallback for those who are weary of this cat-and-mouse game, the city of Ventimiglia has become a merciless territory for migrants in recent months.
Italy is in shock after Father Roberto Malgesini was stabbed to death on September 15. The priest was well known in the northern Italian city of Como for his work helping immigrants and the homeless. The alleged killer, a Tunisian man with mental health problems, turned himself in to the police after the attack.
The Community of Sant'Egidio, the Jesuit Refugee Service, and the Missionary Sisters of St. Charles Borromeo are appealing to Europe to immediately welcome the migrants and refugees who remain displaced on the Greek island of Lesbos after a fire destroyed the Moria migrant camp.
Dozens of people who were living in a makeshift tent camp near Rome's central Termini train station were evicted by Italian authorities on Monday. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said it is concerned about those who were driven out, because they weren't provided with any alternative solutions.
Castel Volturno, a southern Italian municipality near Caserta, has a population of around 23,000 irregular migrants. Commenting on the recent murder of an undocumented Nigerian migrant on September 10, Castel Volturno's mayor warned that the situation in the area is "unmanageable".
Following Italy's permission to let cargo ship Maersk Etienne disembark 27 rescued migrants, UN refugee agency UNHCR has launched a new appeal for the redistribution of migrants at a European level. The migrants had been stranded at sea for 39 days before being allowed to step ashore in Sicily on September 12.
Police in Siracusa, Sicily, on September 11 carried out expulsion orders against 81 irregular migrants. The migrants were on board the quarantine ship Azzurra off the Sicilian port of Augusta.
European border agency Frontex has reported a 14% drop in the number of "illegal border crossings" at Europe's external borders in the first eight months of 2020 to 60,800 compared to the same period last year. In August, numbers were down 30% on July, the agency said on September 10.
27 migrants rescued by cargo ship Maersk Etienne have disembarked in Sicily after being stranded at sea for close to six weeks, ending one of the longest standoffs in the Mediterranean between a boat and EU governments. According to a local online service, the whole group tested negative for the coronavirus.