In the town of Velika Kledusa, most migrants have only one ambition: to get to Croatia and continue their journey to western Europe. Some of them have already attempted the crossing more than twenty times. Each time they try, they risk being pushed back by force by Croatian police.
The incoming Libyan prime minister, Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, has said that he wants to strengthen Libya's "privileged relationship" with Italy, focusing in particular on immigration.
Italian authorities at the Port of Salerno on January 14 discovered 26 migrants who had illegally entered the country on a ship from Turkey. They had hid for more than three days inside two containers.
Refugees and migrants in Greece trying to reach western Europe have accused EU border protection agency Frontex of taking part in illegal deportations known as "pushbacks." DW reports.
The incoming police commissioner of Italy's northeastern city of Trieste, Irene Tittoni, has promised to pay special attention to migration on the so-called "Balkan route." She also wants joint activities with neighboring Slovenia to restart soon.
Several Afghan migrants were found after they jumped out of truck carrying tree trunks. The driver was completely unaware that the men were in the truck until he stopped just across the German border.
A boat carrying mainly Senegalese migrants washed up in the Cape Verde archipelago off West Africa on Sunday night after being adrift at sea for several days. Several hundred more migrants also arrived in the Canary Islands.
Italian vessels and airplanes could be deployed to monitor international waters off Tunisia in order to report to authorities in the North African country the departure of migrant boats. The plan, proposed by Italy, was discussed by Italian Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese and her French counterpart Gerald Darmanin during a meeting held on November 7 in Rome.
In the latest discovery of migrant smuggling in Europe, police in the Czech Republic found 48 people inside a Turkish truck. The migrants reportedly said they were from Syria and on their way to Germany and the Netherlands.
Italian police on Wednesday discovered four migrants hidden in the back of a lorry that was travelling from Slovenia to Lombardy in northern Italy. The day before a smuggler and six migrants were stopped in the Friuli Venezia Giulia region.
French Guiana in South America has become both a destination and a popular transit point for migrants hoping to reach France. The fragile social system in the French territory is buckling under the pressure of increasing migrant arrivals. InfoMigrants' Charlotte Oberti reports from Cayenne.
Although hundreds of thousands of Africans are still choosing to migrate along the so-called "Eastern Route" between the Horn of Africa and the Gulf States via Yemen, a growing number are giving up on their dream and going back home. A new report by IOM Nairobi found that many migrants who set off were largely unaware of the migration risks prior to departure.