A 40-year-old Sudanese man, armed with a knife, has died after being shot by German police. The incident took place at a home for asylum seekers near the German city of Bremen.
A human rights defender in Lithuania, Vytis Jurkonis, says the country cannot cope with the thousands of migrants being 'invited' to cross the border from Belarus. And he fears that for those caught in the political trap the situation will become even more serious as winter approaches.
The director general of the UN migration agency has expressed "extreme concern" over the "deteriorating situation in Afghanistan." The Taliban advances are causing huge amounts of displacement both internally and externally, contributing to a rise in the number of people who are fleeing.
InfoMigrants By Marion MacGregor Published on : 2021/06/09
The number of people seeking asylum in Germany has increased with the easing of COVID-19 restrictions. Last month there were more than twice as many applicants as in the same period in 2020.
German authorities said this week that there were 8,278 new applications for asylum in May, with 950 follow-up applications. A year earlier, according to statistics published by the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF), the number of initial applications was significantly lower, at 3,777 applications. The rise is attributed to the lifting of restrictions which were in place during the first wave of the pandemic in 2020.
Many asylum seekers in Europe share similar experiences of spending years on the streets and bouncing between different countries in the European Union, unable to obtain official status and to start rebuilding their lives. InfoMigrants spoke to several migrants who are currently in Paris.