Eight migrants have been rescued from a lorry near the border crossing in Ventimiglia. The migrants, who were from several African countries, had been having trouble breathing and were unable to open the truck from inside.
Tunisia has decided to close the Medenine center for migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers due to overcrowding and inhumane conditions.
The Italian government said it has delivered 50 off-road vehicles to the Tunisian National Guard, which it donated for use in operations to fight irregular migration in the North African country.
More and more rejected asylum-seekers are being sent back to Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria, according to a new report. The German government wants to designate the countries as "safe" in order to accelerate the process.
Gabriella Bottani, a nun and the international coordinator of the anti-smuggling network Talitha Kum, has denounced ''extremely serious human rights violations in Libya, including torture, work exploitation, sexual abuse and murder.''
A total of 780 human trafficking victims were reported in Tunisia in 2018, up from the 742 registered the previous year, the National commission for the fight against human trafficking (INLCTP) has said. The majority of cases were 'domestic slavery' and 'forced labor.'
Italian authorities have issued arrest warrants for 14 people accused of trafficking migrants on speedboats from Tunisia. Migrants were charged as much as 3,000 euros per trip.
Germany's lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, has voted in favor of declaring four additional countries "safe countries of origin." However, the Bundesrat, the upper house, still has to ratify the decision. The addition of Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and Georgia to list of safe nations is not without controversy.
In 2018, more than 5,000 Tunisians left their home country for Italy alone. A new study found that Tunisia experienced a new peak of irregular emigration starting in the second half of 2017.
There are 630,000 Tunesian emigrants living in OECD countries. A new study by takes a closer look at these migrants. What the researchers learned: Most of them are young (under 35!) and have settled in the European Union, in particular in France, Italy and Germany.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has reported that 111,558 migrants and refugees entered Europe by sea in 2018 through 16 December. At least 2,217 people were reported dead.
Tunisian authorities said it has registered alarming figures regarding human trafficking in 2017, with more than 1,480 cases of underage victims last year.