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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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France: Parliamentary report slams 'low-cost care' for unaccompanied foreign minors

1 week ago | infomigrants.net | Leslie Carretero

"The accommodation conditions for unaccompanied minors are often among the most precarious in child protection," the parliamentary commission reported in its latest assessment, which raised concerns about the overall welcoming conditions for children in the care of child welfare services (ASE).
UK border security chief wants to 'drive up the price' of small boat crossings

1 week ago | infomigrants.net | Sonya Ciesnik

As temperatures rise and the skies become clearer, Channel crossings by migrants in France towards the UK tend to increase. With the peak summer season approaching, the UK's Border Security Chief Martin Hewitt said in an interview with the Financial Times that he wanted to drive up the price of small boat crossings, making them unviable for potential asylum seekers. Smugglers brought 36,816 migrants across the Channel last year.
Germany: Merz says incoming government plans to keep new asylum cases under 100,000

1 week ago | infomigrants.net | Sertan Sanderson

During an hour-long interview on the Caren Miosga show on Germany's public broadcaster ARD on Sunday evening (April 13), Germany's chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz highlighted further details of the incoming government's plans regarding immigration and asylum. "There has been a lot of change in Europe. Many attempts [at change] failed in Germany however in recent years.
Europol dismantles major smuggling ring

1 week ago | infomigrants.net | Sertan Sanderson

Europol stated that around 300 gendarmerie officials in France and an unspecified number of federal police in Italy carried out a coordinated operation on April 01, which resulted in a total of 24 arrests of suspected migrant smugglers in both countries, France and Italy. Authorities searched 24 properties for evidence and seized three vehicles linked to the case as well as a number of communication devices.
Niger: Tensions running high among migrants at UNHCR center

1 week ago | infomigrants.net | Leslie Carretero

For months, the 1,900 migrants staying at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) center in Agadez have protested their living conditions and demanding their resettlement elsewhere in Niger—or in a third country. The suspension of food stamp distribution in February and the arrest of eight residents last week have exacerbated an already tense situation. People have been protesting daily for 194 days—just over six months.
France signs bill to tighten requirements for birthright citizenship in Mayotte

2 weeks ago | infomigrants.net | Sertan Sanderson

The island of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean is regarded as part of the European Union, as it is a French overseas territory. However, it is also a highly impoverished area. It is estimated that there are now more immigrants than actual native inhabitants of the island. Many foreigners reached the island territory by using irregular means over the years in hopes of eventually be granted residence and later citizenship status in an EU country.
Germany: Somali asylum seeker who showed bravery in deadly knife attack won't be deported, authorities say

2 weeks ago | infomigrants.net | Benjamin Bathke

Ahmed Odowaa, an asylum seeker from Somalia who helped stop a knife attacker in the German city of Aschaffenburg on January 22, will no longer face deportation to Italy. That's according to Joachim Herrmann, interior minister of the German state of Bavaria, where Aschaffenburg is located. His announcement on Monday evening (April 7) contradicts previous media reports, which had stated that the 30-year-old Somali would have to leave Germany in the summer.
Greek court acquits migrants accused of lighting Moria fire on Lesbos

2 weeks ago | infomigrants.net | Benjamin Bathke

After spending 3.5 years behind bars for allegedly starting the 2020 fire that destroyed the severely overcrowded Moria migrant camp on the Greek Aegean Island of Lesbos, three Afghan asylum seekers were found not guilty last Friday (April 4) by a youth court in Lesbos' capital Mytilene.
Tunisia: Authorities clear around 7,000 migrants from camps around Sfax

2 weeks ago | infomigrants.net | Benjamin Bathke

Tunisian police, carrying batons, moved through an area with olive trees. Migrants ran away as their tents were set on fire. Some migrants watched as smoke rose from their burning shelters. "I don't know what to do," Bakayo Abdelkadeur, a 26-year-old from Mali, told news agency AFP while holding blankets. Last Friday (April 4), authorities began dismantling camps housing some 7,000 undocumented migrants from sub-Saharan Africa, news agency AFP reported citing police sources.
Poland to launch 'information campaign' to prevent migrants from taking Belarus route

2 weeks ago | infomigrants.net | Benjamin Bathke

Poland will launch an information campaign abroad to deter migrants from trying to cross into the European Union through its border with Belarus, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Friday (April 4). "We will soon launch an information campaign in seven countries where the largest number of migrants trying to illegally cross the Polish border come from," Tusk said in Polish in a video published on social media on Friday.