Migrants are being allowed to leave the Tajoura detention center in the Libyan capital Tripoli, about two weeks after it was hit by an air strike which killed at least 53 people and injured 130 others. The UNHCR Libya is trying to register and provide assistance to many who have left but what will happen to them next?
The UN Migration Agency (IOM), following the migrant killing at the Tajoura detention center in Libya, said 3,000 migrants and refugees are still arbitrarily detained in and around Tripoli.
Dozens were killed in an air strike on a center housing migrants on the outskirts of Tripoli, with many more wounded. Center officials blamed the attack on forces loyal to Khalifa Haftar, but his militants denied it.
At least two people have been injured after an airstrike hit a target close to a detention center in Tripoli where more than 500 migrants are being held. The United Nations refugee agency has demanded that all migrants in conflict-affected areas in and around the Libyan capital be immediately moved to safety.
Indiscriminate bombing is continuing, including on residential areas, according to humanitarian agency OCHA. Over 3,000 refugees and migrants are stuck near the frontline.
An escalation of fighting in Libya is threatening to turn into "an all-out conflict," UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned. An airstrike near Tripoli has shut down the capital's only functioning airport.
Hundreds of thousands of refugees in camps in Iraq remain in an 'acute' situation, according to the aid group CARE International. The organization's Iraq representative has warned the international community not to lose sight of the problem.
Hundreds of people continue to pour out of Eritrea every day into neighboring Ethiopia. The reopening of the border in September and the peace deal ending two decades of war have raised hopes in some quarters of an improved human rights situation in Eritrea. But the head of the world's largest Muslim charity, Naser Haghamed, who fled the country as a young teenager, worries that it will be crippled by the ongoing exodus.
The organization Norwegian Refugee Council is sounding an alarm over the lack of funding for humanitarian assistance to the more than 34,000 people recently displaced due to violence in Mali.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has announced that he will grant a pardon for returning Syrians who dodged obligatory military service, including many refugees who are now in Europe. But is the move genuine or simply for image purposes?
The port of Hudaydah, in Yemen, remains key for the survival of the country's populations and migrants in spite of the ongoing war, says the International Organization for Migration (IOM), which continues to support the displaced in the city. Despite the enduring conflict, the port of Hudaydah remains a vital channel for the arrival of humanitarian aid for those who are desparately in need in Yemen, the UN agency for migration IOM reports.
Since the far right came to power in Italy, the southern European nation’s migrant policies have hardened considerably. Yet in the 20th century, many Italians emigrated themselves in the search for a better life, fleeing economic hardship and Mussolini’s authoritarian regime.