Two girls on their way to school were attacked by a man wielding a knife in a town in southern Germany. Police have said they arrested an Eritrean man inside a refugee home near the scene of the attack, as well as detained two other men. Police are investigating the motive behind the attack.
The French government has declared that it must "do better" on the expulsion of irregular migrants from the country, after criticism from the far-right opposition in the wake of the violent murder of a 12-year-old in Paris. The main suspect in the murder case is a 24-year-old homeless Algerian woman with psychiatric problems.
The widow of the Nigerian man who was beaten to death by a white Italian man on a street in Italy on July 29, says she has yet to come to terms with her husband's murder. She says Alika Ogochukwu was the breadwinner in their family although he was living with a disability. Listen to what Charity Oriakhi told DW Africa about her late husband.
A police officer shot a 16-year-old unaccompanied minor several times with a submachine gun in front of a youth welfare facility in the German city of Dortmund. The shooting has prompted protests and questions in Germany.
A man has been charged with the murder and attempted murder of people staying at a shelter for asylum seekers in western Germany in the early 1990s.
UN investigators revealed once more that migrants and refugees detained in Libya face serious abuse, with women especially facing sexual violence. The report highlights how females are forced to submit to rape in exchange for food. It also mentions the discovery of "dozens" of mass graves with migrants' bodies.
A man in Germany has been arrested and charged with murder more than 30 years after an arson attack on a shelter for asylum seekers in the city of Saarlouis. A young Ghanaian had died of severe burns and smoke inhalation.
The southern Italian city of Castel Volturno, which hosts a community of thousands of immigrants, commemorated on Saturday the so-called "slaughter of San Gennaro" -- the murder of six Ghanaian citizens by members of the powerful Casalesi criminal clan 13 years ago.
A German Neo-Nazi was sentenced this week to life in prison for murdering Walter Lübcke, a local politician whose support for refugees had made him a target among Germany’s right-wing extremist scene. The verdict has closed a painful chapter in Germany's debate on migration, but there's a long history of xenophobia and racism that continues to simmer underneath.
International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Fatou Bensouda has asked the UN in Libya to adopt concrete measures to end impunity in the country, and bring to justice those who have committed serious crimes and crimes against humanity.
Dessau is notorious for two brutal deaths of Africans in separate incidents — one of which occurred in police custody and remains unresolved. Even today, few of the city’s white residents see racism as a daily problem.
At least 30 migrants were brutally murdered in Libya by the family of a slain human trafficker. Libya’s interior ministry said it has issued an arrest warrant for the suspected attackers.