Coronavirus strands refugee children
A number of EU member states want to take in refugee children stuck in Greece. However, Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn now says the coronavirus pandemic has made that impossible.
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Germany among 7 EU countries to take in 1600 refugee children
The EU has also offered migrants on the Greek islands money for a voluntary return to their home country. Some 5,000 refugees, currently housed in overflowing camps, could take up the €2,000 offer.
Migrants arrested on suspicion of rape in Bosnia
Six migrants from Afghanistan and Pakistan were arrested in Bosnia and Herzegovina on Wednesday on suspicion of raping unaccompanied minors staying at the same camp. A further four men were arrested in the same operation on suspicion of drug trafficking and possession.
Germany open to resettling children from Greek refugee camps
Germany's government is seeking a "coalition of the willing" to take in the children across Europe. The EU wants to avoid repeating the 2015 refugee crisis as thousands of refugees and migrants gather at Greece's border.
Seven German mayors: Allow us to accept underage refugees
Mayors in seven German cities pled with the government for the right to welcome underage refugees from Greece. The move comes after the federal parliament rejected a motion to accept minors from Greek refugee camps.
Where are they? How to search for missing loved ones
How do you look for a loved one who has gone missing during a migration journey? There are several places you can turn to for help.
Audio report: Migrant minors at 'grave risk' in Greece
Aid agencies in Greece are warning that unaccompanied migrant children are at grave risk at overcrowded migrant camps. Many of them are seeking voluntary detention at police cells to escape the camps. Aid agencies want the Greek government to beef up efforts to reunite unaccompanied minors with their families. But most European nations are not willing to help. Anthee Carassava has more.
Among migrants rescued by Ocean Viking: Traumatized teens and motherless children
Among the migrants that disembarked from the Ocean Viking in Italy on Wednesday were 149 minors. Many of them experienced terrible things on their migration journeys, in particular in Libya, they told aid workers.
Oumar's story: 'On my 18th birthday, everything fell apart'
Oumar arrived in France when he was 16 years old and started studying catering. But as soon as he turned 18, his apprenticeship was abruptly terminated and he was ordered to leave France. This is his story.
Happy reunion of an Afghan refugee and an Italian with a big heart
When Afghan refugee Syed first arrived in Italy, he was freezing, scared and alone. A local pizza baker offered him help -- food, clean clothes and a bed to sleep in. 13 years later, Syed was able to reunite with his good samaritan.
Most requests from Greece to join refugee family in Germany fail
European asylum rules allow refugees in Greece who have been separated from their families in Germany to apply to be reunited. Yet the German government has revealed that the majority of requests for family reunification continue to be rejected.
Greece denies care to severely sick migrant kids, MSF claims
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has accused Greece of deliberately depriving at least 140 children in the Moria camp on the island of Lesbos of adequate medical care for chronic, complex and life-threatening diseases.