Nigerien authorities reported that they have dismantled a human trafficking network in West Africa, resulting in about 20 arrests in the capital Niamey and in Maradi, the country's second-largest city. In total, more than 540 suspected traffickers have been arrested in the country since 2019.
Following the deaths of nine migrants headed towards the Canary Islands in March 2021, two people have each been sentenced to nine years in prison. Two young children were among those who died.
Many unaccompanied minors are among roughly a thousand people who currently live in unofficial settlements around Calais. A number of NGOs have deplored the chronic lack of accommodation places for these young people, made even more vulnerable by the "zero fixed settlement point" strategy.
The German Federal Police have joined France and the UK in an anti-people-smuggling operation called ‘Small Boats’. They say smugglers are buying boats in Germany with the aim of transporting migrants across the Channel.
18-year-old Abdullah from Darfur was held south of Tripoli by a smuggler who tortured him to try to get a ransom. When the money did not arrive, the smuggler covered the Sudanese teenager with gasoline and set him on fire, InfoMigrants was told. Abdullah is now in hospital in Tripoli in a serious condition.
Hungarian police have fired several gunshots at a truck carrying about 30 hidden passengers presumed to be irregular migrants. The vehicle drove through a checkpoint at the country's border with Austria without stopping when police tried to intervene.
Greek authorities have charged three people with murder following the death of 16 migrants after a boat overturned in the Aegean Sea last Friday.
Three men accused of smuggling migrants across the Channel have received jail sentences of one to four years, report French media. Meanwhile, the British and French approach to the migration situation has been criticized by Nobel Prize for Literature winner Abdulrazak Gurnah.
This is the story of Amer, a former Syrian school teacher who ended up in Belarus from Damascus in search of a better future in Europe. He has been living in a basement on the outskirts of Minsk while waiting for a call from a smuggler who is supposed to take him to Germany.
The Syrians, Lebanese, and Egyptian migrants had planned to reach Germany after being dropped off in Austria, police said. Hundreds of migrants paid up to €5,000 each ($5,600) for the ride.
Two Pakistanis and two Afghan minors were arrested in North Macedonia for allegedly abusing other migrants "in an extremely cruel and humiliating manner."
French police have cleared another migrant camp near the French port city of Dunkirk. The camp at Grande-Synthe was home to about 1,500 migrants hoping to cross the Channel to the UK.