There are more than 6 million migrants and refugees in East Africa and the Horn of Africa, according to UN migration agency IOM. Just over 50% of them are women and girls. Uganda, Kenya and Ethiopia all host more than one million foreign citizens. More than 10 million people in the region have been internally displaced.
"We want justice for our daughter," the parents of the five-year-old girl who died on an islet along the Greek-Turkish border have demanded before a Greek court. Greece maintains that the islet where the girl died was "Turkish territory".
More than five months after the beginning of Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, over 150,000 Ukrainian students are registered in German schools. The news comes as the number of refugees who've fled Ukraine reached the ten million mark this week.
A flight with 63 Ukrainian refugee children landed in Trapani, Sicily, on Wednesday. The children had been evacuated from orphanages in the Donetsk Oblast.
Over 1,200 unaccompanied migrant children in Greece have been relocated across 13 European countries as a result of Greece's Voluntary Relocation Program, which now counts two years of operations. Meanwhile, the number of unaccompanied children who sought asylum in the European Union in 2021 jumped by 72%.