Refugees and locals living door to door and sharing their daily routines: The Hoffnungshaus in Leonberg in southern Germany is a model of integration that may soon be adopted by other cities in Germany.
Refugee status and subsidiary protection as well as resettlement and humanitarian protection programs are not necessarily permanent. So when can these statuses be revoked?
A bakery in eastern Germany is helping the integration of a Syrian refugee. Through an apprenticeship program, Mohamad Hamza Alemam is forging a future as a baker. And growing new roots in his host country.
Canada has announced it will take in 750 vulnerable refugees who were kept under slave-like conditions in Libya. 150 persons have been resettled so far, another 600 will follow over the next two years. Canada is also looking to accept refugees from Niger.
Following an attack against a city in north-eastern Nigeria, an estimated 30,000 Nigerians have fled to Cameroon, the NGO Action Against Hunger reports.
Requests for humanitarian protection in Italy have seen a sharp decline since the Salvini security decree was enacted into law in December, with 50,000 fewer migrants in reception centers. Requests totaled just two percent in the first 20 days of this year, compared to 26 percent during the same period in 2018.
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has denounced the deteriorating conditions in Libyan detention centers in Misrata and Kohms due to a 'sharp increase' in the number of people held, including pregnant women and children. The World Health Organization (WHO) reported violence and deaths related to fighting in Tripoli.
Aram fled Syria in 2015. The 27-year old artist found safety in Berlin, Germany, but also misses home: "The sky color is different. The smell of the air is different. When it rains it’s different here than where I come from."
The Conservative Popular Party (PP) has made a deal with the center-right Ciudadanos (Citizens) party to take power in Spain's most populous state. Their coalition will be supported by the anti-immigrant Vox party, which in the past has called for mass deporations of migrants.
Mimmo Lucano, Riace's suspended mayor, has launched a new initiative to support integration projects for migrants in the southern Italian town. The projects were blocked after the pro-migrant politician was accused of corruption and helping illegal immigration last year.
The mayor of Gdansk, Pawel Adamowicz, was a humanitarian who welcomed migrants and refugees. Across Poland, thousands of people have turned out to honor the 53-year-old who died on Monday, but his death highlights deep divisions in the country too.
Migrant women and children in Rome are left to fend for themselves in the freezing cold because the centers for them open only late in the evening - that's what the organization Baobab Experience, which helps migrants in Rome, claims. They want the town council to do more to meet the needs of the homeless during the winter.