Fatoumata Bamba was a 26-year-old woman from the Ivory Coast. She arrived in Lampedusa in the morning on February 18 after crossing the Mediterranean with her husband from Sfax, Tunisia, in a small iron boat. 13 hours later, she was dead. Could hear death have been avoided?
A new report released by Border Forensics concludes that migrants have almost no chance of surviving when crossing the desert from Niger to Libya. Ever since the introduction of border control laws in 2015, migrants have been forced to take more remote and deadly paths, according to Border Forensics.
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."
In the Canary Islands, the International Committee of the Red Cross is training teams to use a tool capable of listing all the relationships a victim may have had during the last hours of their life while crossing the Atlantic Ocean. Julia Dumont reports for InfoMigrants.
Thousands of people in Sudan continue to flee violence in the country. But many of them – including thousands of Syrian nationals – are finding themselves with nowhere to turn, having come to Sudan seeking safety from conflicts in their own countries.
At least six people were killed in a vehicle collision near the Greek-Turkish border on Saturday.
EU Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson has reiterated that the EU needs migration. During a press conference announcing future EU migration policy, she declared that "investing in safe and legal routes is the only sustainable soultion to save [migrants'] lives."
The shipwreck off the Calabrian coast of Italy on February 26 was one of the worst of the decade. Many say Italy's strict immigration policy is to blame.
A young couple from the Ivory Coast set off from Tunisia last month in search of a better life in Europe. But after landing safely at the Italian island Lampedusa, only one of them made it to the mainland alive.
Last December, a 14-year-old girl had died after being attacked by a man wielding a knife in southern Germany. The public prosecutor's office has now filed charges against the suspect, a 27-year-old asylum seeker from Eritrea.
About 40,000 Syrians have returned from Turkey to rebel-held regions of northwestern Syria. This follows an easing of restrictions on the movements of Syrian nationals, which had been in place prior to the deadly earthquake of February 6.
It is one of Germany's most notorious deaths in custody: The presumed killing of Oury Jalloh, an asylum seeker from Sierra Leone who died in a police cell in 2005. After more than 17 years of legal battles, the highest German court rejected a constitutional complaint by Jalloh's brother, who said he'd now take the case to the European Court of Human Rights.