Mohamed and Israa, both from Sudan, met in an unlikely place for a romance: the house of their smuggler in Turkey. They got married and crossed the Aegean Sea to the island of Lesbos. While waiting for legal status, they dream of a honeymoon in the Cyclades.
A court in Morocco has increased the sentences of eight migrants convicted over a tragic incident on the border with the Spanish enclave of Melilla last June. The men face up to four years in prison for crimes including illegal entry into Morocco.
Sudanese teenager Mazen Adam has been freed from a Libyan detention center after being kidnapped and tortured by gunmen. Libyan authorities have still not dropped charges against the boy, insisting the kidnapping was fabricated.
Following an international manhunt led by the United Arab Emirates (UAE), an Eritrean man described as one of "the world's most wanted" human traffickers has been arrested in Sudan. Interpol said that the suspect, Kidane Zekarias Habtemariam, had a reputation for being "particularly cruel and violent against migrants."
Coping strategies used by migrant children to shield themselves from the consequences of abuse can expose them to even greater danger, says the charity Save the Children.
Switzerland has announced a temporary halt to its participation in a UN program to take in vulnerable refugees. The government says the influx of war refugees from Ukraine has pushed it to the limit.
The organization Human Rights Watch has released a report in which it documents at least 11 incidents of sexual violence between 2016 and 2022 committed against refugee and asylum-seeking women and girls in Egypt. According to HRW, three of the rapes resulted in pregnancy, and all of the women experienced "severe physical effects."
Ajabana* was arrested last January while demonstrating outside an administrative center of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in the Libyan capital. Since then, he has been locked up in the notorious Ain Zara prison. He described the nightmarish experience to InfoMigrants.
A string of shootings at the Loon-Plage migrant camp in northern France this week left at least two more people injured. Rival smugglers are believed to be behind the eruption of violence.
A video showing a 15-year-old refugee boy in Libya being abused by kidnappers has caused widespread alarm. It shows how abuse, torture, sexual violence and killings of migrants are rampant in the North African nation.
Spain's practice of pushing back migrants from its North African enclaves to Morocco is controversial. But is it permitted by law?
The EU is facing renewed accusations of funding human rights abuses in Libya. With growing reports of torture, extortion, slavery and murder surfacing from the North African country, migrants are joining the voices of those calling for lasting change.