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26.04.2023, InfoMigrants
Malta's armed forces have refused to provide figures on migrant rescue operations requested by Times of Malta, claiming their publication could endanger national security. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Italien / Malta
25.04.2023, Tagesschau
In the Bosnian refugee camp Lipa, a detention wing is being built, commissioned and financed by the European Union. NGOs fear a deportation prison at the EU's external border. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Osteuropa, Europäische Union
25.04.2023, InfoMigrants
The bodies of more than 100 people have been recovered off the coasts of Libya and Tunisia following several shipwrecks. At the same time, Tunisian authorities have been accused of stealing engines from migrant boats and leaving the occupants stranded at sea. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Nordafrika
25.04.2023, Reuters
The head of the United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP) in Chad said it expects to see more refugees fleeing across the border from Sudan to escape the fighting between the army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. Around 10,000 to 20,000 Sudanese have already crossed the border into Chad a week after the fighting began in Khartoum and other areas of the country. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Afrika
24.04.2023, The Libya Update
Tunisian coast guards recovered a total of 31 bodies of migrants in the last few hours, including two minors, who died in various shipwrecks on the Central Mediterranean route to Europe and were “dragged by the waves” to the shore. read more
24.04.2023, Infomigrants
The Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) reports rising levels of suffering and misery on migration routes across the Balkans as well as the Mediterranean. The Red Cross manages hundreds of help facilities for migrants and refugee in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia and Slovenia, where it provides people with food and drink, hygiene items and medicines, among other things. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Balkanstaaten
24.04.2023, Info Migrants
More than 20 people are missing after attempting to cross the Mediterranean from North Africa. Hundreds of others were rescued and brought to Italy by the coast guard and the Ocean Viking humanitarian ship. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Italien / Malta, Nordafrika
23.04.2023, taz
Lithuania allows illegal pushbacks of migrants at the border with Belarus. Patrols by volunteer "border guards" are also to become possible. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Balkanstaaten, Osteuropa
21.04.2023, Deutsche Welle
Turkey has taken in about 5.5 million refugees, many of them Syrians. Ahead of the May 14 parliamentary and presidential elections, almost all parties say they would send Syrians back if elected. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Griechenland / Türkei
21.04.2023, Fanpage
The Spanish NGO Open Arms' sailing ship Astral set sail today for the central Mediterranean. "We are at sea to save lives and ensure that rights are respected," they wrote in a statement. read more
Language(s): Italienisch / Italiano Region(s): Spanien
21.04.2023, Altraeconomia
Since the end of March, the Croatian police has been implementing an 'unprecedented' practice of tracing, detaining and collectively deporting people on their way to Bosnia, transporting them by bus to the border or to detention centres. All with a semblance of formality. The NGOs denounce its blatant illegality and European complicity. read more
Language(s): Italienisch / Italiano Region(s): Balkanstaaten, Europäische Union
21.04.2023, Europa Today
While the Cutro decree passed its first reading in the Senate in Italy, the European Parliament gave the first okay to the new EU Pact for Migration and Asylum, the proposal that aims to fill the absence of a true common system of migrant management. Among the many new features, one is of particular interest to Italy: in the event of a "crisis situation," all EU states will have to offer assistance to the migrants' country of arrival. read more
Language(s): Italienisch / Italiano Region(s): Italien / Malta, Europäische Union
20.04.2023, La Repubblica
The Senate approved the migrant decree (or "Cutro") with 92 votes in favor and 64 against. The government measure now passes to the House, which must convert it by May 10. After yesterday's staged clash over the changes approved by the majority regarding the regulation of special protection the go-ahead for the text was met with applause and several "boos." read more
Language(s): Italienisch / Italiano Region(s): Italien / Malta
19.04.2023, Progetto Melting Pot Europa
After the Cutro tragedy, from the beginning the government has blamed the alleged smugglers for the shipwreck off the Calabrian coast. Blaming smugglers and human traffickers has in fact become a mantra used to deny responsibility not only for the lack of rescue, but also for the creation of safe routes for the mobility of people from the Global South. read more
19.04.2023, ANSA
About 100 people in distress on an inflatable boat off Libya, the call was received by Alarm Phone. "They said that their boat is sinking and they fear the worst," the phone service reports. "So far," it adds, "we have not been able to contact the so-called Libyan Coast Guard on any of their numbers. We need to send rescue now!" read more
18.04.2023, Infomigrants
A group of 60 migrants rescued from two separate boats in the central Mediterranean disembarked on the island of Malta on Monday. It was the biggest arrival of migrants in Malta in many months. read more
18.04.2023, LRT
Non-governmental organisations have called on the Lithuanian parliament, Seimas, to vote down a bill legalising the policy of turning away irregular migrants at the border. read more
17.04.2023, The Grey Zone
An investigation by the United Nations has concluded that money provided by the European Union to state entities in Libya has facilitated crimes against humanity ranging from forced labor and sexual slavery to torture. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Nordafrika, Europäische Union
17.04.2023, Aljazeera
Syrian national is fighting for his life in a Polish hospital, having fallen from a border wall in his attempt to flee Belarus and find safety elsewhere in Europe. Mohammad, who is now in a medically induced coma in Białystok, eastern Poland, was injured and hospitalised on April 7 after tumbling off the five-metre (16-foot) high, 186km (115-mile) long wall erected last year by Polish authorities. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Osteuropa
17.04.2023, Infomigrants
A vehicle full of migrants traveling west from Greece's border with Turkey crashed while attempting to avoid a police checkpoint Saturday. The van, which was reportedly traveling at a high speed on the wrong side of the highway, collided head-on with an SUV. The 46-year-old driver of the SUV, as well as six of the migrants aboard, died. read more
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