After six years of absence, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is back in Calais. The NGO hopes to provide "medico-social and psychological" support to migrants already facing serious physical and psychological trauma.
A migrant has died in the French port town of Calais after he was hit by a truck. An official at the local prosecutors office said he "was apparently crossing the motorway when he was hit."
Data obtained by Liberty Investigates and the Observer suggests UK coastguards "effectively ignored" some notifications of migrant boats in the Channel in the weeks preceding a shipwreck in November 2021, where at least 27 died.
Shortly after the sun rose Wednesday over the Channel, a small black dinghy weighed down by eight migrants crossed into UK waters, the latest illegal arrivals via this contentious route.
Around 50 migrants crossed the Channel from France to the UK on February 21, the first group to have crossed since last week. Meanwhile the UK government is reportedly planning to announce more new immigration legislation "within weeks."
Several pro-migrant organizations are supporting legal challenges to the UK government policy to send asylum seekers to Rwanda. They staged a protest against the policy outside parliament this week, calling for the policy to be abolished.
Four people died after their boat sunk in the middle of the Channel on December 13. Undeterred by this latest tragedy, migrants in the Loon-Plage camp in northern France are determined to reach the English shore.
Volunteers dressed up as Father Christmas visited migrants and other marginalized groups camping in Calais, or living rough, over the weekend. They distributed food, treats and donations of clothes and shoes to those in need.
The French authorities rescued 61 migrants on Tuesday. At least 30 of them had to be plucked from the water after spending about 25 minutes in the sea.
The decree preventing aid groups from distributing food to migrants in Calais has been deemed as "disproportionate" by a government commissioner who said the ban has "the effect of complicating the access to basic necessities of precarious populations".
More migrants crossed the Channel to the UK from France between January and mid-September than in the whole of 2021. What accounts for these record numbers? Infomigrants speaks to Olivier Cahn, a researcher specialized in penal law and author of a thesis on Franco-English police cooperation in the Channel zone.
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.