The tragic case of a Guinean migrant's suicide in Italy highlights the poor conditions in the country's migrant detention centers (CPRs). After overcoming many hurdles to reach Europe, Ousmane Sylla eventually lost the will to live.
West African countries including Senegal and Gambia are experiencing an exodus of migrants trying to reach Europe. Senegalese authorities say they have stopped boats carrying more than 500 people bound for the Canary Islands this month.
On Monday, Spanish coast guards recovered at least one dead body and rescued 170 migrants from a boat traveling off the coast of Gran Canaria, an island in the Spanish archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean.
Human rights groups have denounced Italy's migrant detention centers as blackholes for human rights violations. In 2014, migrants housed at the Ponte Galeria detention center sewed their mouths shut in protest over the center's deplorable living conditions.
A young migrant from Senegal who steered a boat across the English Channel has been jailed for causing the deaths of four people. The case marks an escalation in the government's efforts to criminalize migrants and asylum seekers, rights groups say.
More than 18,000 Guineans landed in Italy in 2023. They are the first nationality of migrants arriving in the country. The driving forces behind these departures include persistent insecurity and severe political repression in Guinea, regardless of the regime in place.
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that member states of the EU are not legally obliged to grant protection to the parents of recognized refugee minors in all cases. However, it also said that the family unit must be preserved by whatever means are available.
When he arrived in Lille, France, after a long and hard journey, Alpha had nowhere to go. The teenager eventually found refuge in a rectory in the city, and met Suzanne, a volunteer. That encounter changed their lives.
A total of 145 migrants reached the southern Italian island of Lampedusa in just a few hours on Monday. Meanwhile, a Tunisian citizen has been arrested on charges of aiding and abetting illegal immigration.
A five-month-old baby is reported to have died off the Italian island of Lampedusa on Tuesday night, as the Italian coast guard tried to rescue a boat of 46 migrants and bring them safely to land.
Four migrants, who survived a shipwreck in which at least 41 people died when the boat they were traveling on capsized, among them children, recount the tragedy they witnessed. UN agencies express grief about the deaths.
More than 40 people have been killed after a migrant vessel sank, survivors of the shipwreck told Italian media.