InfoMigrants

Our goal is to provide migrants with trustworthy, verified, and impartial news and information about their home countries, the countries they pass through, and their destinations. InfoMigrants is a partnership among three prominent European media organizations: France Médias Monde (which includes France 24, Radio France Internationale, and Monte Carlo Doualiya), the German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle, and the Italian news agency ANSA. This initiative is also supported by funding from the European Union.

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Newly arrived migrant women in Europe risk falling into prostitution 'trap'

6 days ago | infomigrants.net | Marlène Panara

Blessing is a "survivor." The graduate in computer science left her native Nigeria for Spain over ten years ago, after being promised a job in a specialty store. Blessing quickly realized that "it was all a trap" upon her arrival in Europe. "The job didn't exist and neither did my work visa," she said. Her abductors then forced her to leave Spain for Naples, Italy.
Italy: Medical charity's clinic in Tuscany closes due to funding cuts - InfoMigrants

1 week ago | infomigrants.net

The mobile clinic operated by medical charity Doctors for Human Rights (MEDU) in Tuscany, which treats vulnerable residents, has been forced to shut down operations due to funding cuts.
University program in Bari for refugee students awarded accolade

1 week ago | infomigrants.net | Valentina Maresca

The permanent lifelong learning center at the University of Bari (CAP UniBa), in the south-eastern Italian region of Puglia, has reached one of its key objectives after it was awarded a certificate quantifying the positive attention it granted to refugee students.
'You become a target if you are Black', says Ivorian jailed in Tunisia for 'illegal residence'

1 week ago | infomigrants.net | Leslie Carretero

"In February, police officers burst into the house where my wife and I were living, along with four other people in Sfax. The others were from Guinea and the Ivory Coast, and one of them was a woman who was seven months pregnant. The officers destroyed everything while searching the house. They also stole our phones and personal belongings, while pointing guns at us. They handcuffed us and sent us to the nearest police station. We were transferred to Thyna prison in Sfax after a few hours.
Germany: Over 2,100 refugee cases under review after travels to home countries

2 weeks ago | infomigrants.net | Sertan Sanderson

In the past six months, protection status revocation proceedings were initiated on a total of 2,157 cases of people taking temporary journeys home to their country of origin, a spokesperson for BAMF told Germany's weekly Welt am Sonntag newspaper. The two countries with the most cases of such unauthorized trips were Iraq and Syria, with 762 and 734 instances, respectively. These were followed by Afghanistan (240), Iran (115) cases and Turkey (31).
Asylum in the EU: What is the new 'safe countries' list?

2 weeks ago | infomigrants.net | Leslie Carretero |Mohammad Arif Ullah

The proposed list of "safe countries of origin", published in a Commission press release on April 16, includes Kosovo, Bangladesh, Colombia, Egypt, India, Morocco and Tunisia, and is part of the EU’s migration reform under the Pact on Migration and Asylum, which is scheduled to take full effect in July 2026. InfoMigrants spoke with a spokesperson from the European Commission to clarify what this proposal means.
Offering dignity to dead migrants in the Canary Islands

2 weeks ago | infomigrants.net | Sonya Ciesnik

Life and death comes with the waves in El Hierro, a Spanish island located off the coast of West Africa. The island buried the first migrant of this year in late January. The young man had died shortly after his boat was towed into the port of La Restinga. He had been accompanied by 68 other migrants, but no one knew who he was. He was thus laid to rest in a crypt, with a slab of stone that simply read: “Migrante”.
Algeria expels more than 1,000 migrants to northern Niger

3 weeks ago | infomigrants.net | Emma Wallis

Reports on the Spanish and Portuguese news agencies EFE and LUSA suggest that migrants from 17 different countries, including Nigeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Mali, Gambia, Guinea, Niger, Somalia, Sudan, and Bangladesh were expelled from Algeria on Saturday (April 19). The organization Alarme Phone Sahara (APS) told reporters that there were 41 women and 12 children among the 1,141 migrants expelled.
Berlin: Attacks against migrants, asylum seekers and refugees show 'marked increase'

3 weeks ago | infomigrants.net | Emma Wallis

The news of an increase in attacks against migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Germany’s capital city, Berlin, comes just after the latest knife attack perpetrated by a migrant against a German national hit the headlines. Creating an overall climate of increasing violence, anger and resentment, not just in Berlin but Germany-wide, in which migration and migrants are becoming a much-discussed and sensitive topic.
UK: UNHCR backs the idea of 'return hubs' as part of migration strategy

3 weeks ago | infomigrants.net | Emma Wallis

On April 18, a male migrant was confirmed to have died while attempting to make the Channel crossing in a small boat. The announcement came as UK government data shows that more than 9,000 migrants have crossed the Channel to the UK since the beginning of the year. The UK government has increasingly been searching for new strategies to reduce the numbers and overall migration to Britain.