In France and the UK, many migrants are refusing to get tested for COVID-19. Non-profit organizations worry that migrants' distrust of public authorities will interfere with their willingness to get vaccinated.
Heavy snow falls, storms, hail, floods and strong winds have raged across Greece in the last few days. The weather has caused power outages and so far three people have died. Concerns are growing for migrants living outside in camps, with some in Athens transferred temporarily to shelter from the cold.
A fire on the border between Afghanistan and Iran on Saturday damaged a reception center run by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), resulting in a halt to services for repatriated Afghans.
Italian authorities arrested three people smugglers on Monday, February 15, as part of an investigation sparked after about 100 migrants were found the previous night, in an area north of the city of Udine.
Fearing deportation and racist attacks, migrants stranded in the Canary Islands have been on hunger strike recently to demand their transfer to the mainland. There have also been reports of self-mutilation.
Tomo Knezevic, director of the "Caritas" charity in Bosnia and Herzegovina, is taking Europe to task: His chapter of the global Catholic charity has received "far too little support" in its efforts to care for migrants, he said in an interview. He is appealing for more help from sister organizations across Europe.
Serbian Interior Minister Aleksandar Vulin has defended his country's treatment of migrants in a speech to the parliament. He also warned that Serbia does not intend to become "a parking area for migrants".
Many migrants complain that they have not been able to apply for asylum when they cross the border into France. According to them, the French border police (PAF) refuse to take their asylum applications and immediately send them back to neighboring Italy.
24-year-old Paul hails from Cameroon. On the night of February 3, 2021, he made his second attempt to cross the Alps into France from neighbouring Italy with a group of four other people. He tells InfoMigrants his story.
The deportees landed in the Afghan capital Kabul on Tuesday, February 9. They departed the German city Munich earlier that day.
The Italian organization Doctors for Human Rights (MEDU) has denounced the critical situation of migrants who attempt to reach France from Italy through the Alpine border.
Adama* contacted InfoMigrants to talk about what he experienced on arrival in Romania. Beaten and humiliated by Romanian police after crossing the border from Serbia, the 36-year-old Malian is still traumatized by the violence he suffered.