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Migrants clung to the capsized boat as it sank in the Atlantic Ocean on April 29, 2024 | Source: X @salvamentogob

Mauritania
Senegal
Spain

Fifty-one migrants dead, nine survivors in latest Canary Islands boat tragedy

At least 51 people died after their boat sank south of Spain's Canary Island El Hierro in the Atlantic Ocean. Nine survivors were rescued by helicopter.

From file: Some countries do not collect any data on missing child migrants | Photo: Nicolas Economou /picture alliance / NurPhoto

Germany
Italy
Netherlands

More than 50,000 unaccompanied child migrants missing in Europe

From file: The European Union is tightening visa requirements for people from Ethiopia, which it says is not cooperating on the deportation of citizens from the bloc | Photo: picture alliance / AP Photo / Dalton Bennett

Ethiopia
European Union

EU tightens visa requirements for Ethiopians in readmission quid pro quo

News

From file: Protesters displaying signs against the government of the United Kingdom because of its Rwanda scheme to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda | Photo: Tolga Akmen / EPA / ANSAMed

Rwanda
United Kingdom

UN sounds alarm over UK-Rwanda Asylum Law

From file: Syrian refugee children walking next to makeshift shelters in a Syrian refugee camp in Lebanon | Photo: Wael Hamzeh / EPA / ANSAMed

Lebanon
Syria

North Lebanon, evacuation order for 'undocumented Syrians'

From file: A torchlit procession and prayer held after the deadly shipwreck of a boat carrying migrants off the beach of Steccato di Cutro | Photo: Luigi Salsini / ANSA

Italy

Witness at Cutro trial claims policemen told him whom to accuse

Features

Sub-Saharan migrants are not welcome in Tunisia, and President Kais Saied has rejected a Tunisian 'Rwanda plan' for the country | Photo: Fathi Nasri/AFP/Getty Images

Tunisia
European Union

Tunisia: EU version of 'Rwanda plan' for asylum-seekers?

Germany's healthcare system faces a dual challenge due to its aging population: There's a growing demand for closer medical attention for the elderly, while doctors are retiring without adequate replacements | Photo: Andreas Arnold/dpa/picture alliance

Germany

How are foreign doctors faring in Germany?

From file: Young players after a match between two academies in Barcelona, Spain | Photo: Michaël Da Costa

Spain

Africa's young soccer players exploited, abandoned to their fate in Spain

Personal stories

Prison, punishment and pushbacks: From Eritrea to Libya to Italy

InfoMigrants spoke with Eritrean migrants aboard Emergency's Life Support search-and-rescue vessel in March 2024. Two of their stories highlight the grim reality of life for sub-Saharan migrants in Libya, where both lived for over three years before managing to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Italy.

From Eritrean migrant to activist, the story of Abraham Tesfai

The 34-year-old Abraham Tesfai has spoken to ANSA about an odyssey that saw him flee Eritrea to reach Lampedusa after crossing Sudan, Libya and the Mediterranean. Today, he lives in Bologna, central Italy, where he has become an activist.

How one Iranian LGBTQ+ activist found a new life in Germany

Sareh Hamdani was arrested in October 2021 while trying to cross Iran's border with Turkey. She was then sentenced to death for the alleged crime of promoting homosexuality. After protests in Germany, she was released on bail and was finally able to flee.