On a visit to Tunisia the Italian ministers for foreign affairs and the interior met with their counterparts to discuss stability in the Mediterranean region and stopping migration flows. The Italian delegation will travel to Egypt on Saturday, another key departure and transit country.
On Christmas morning, unaccompanied underage migrants helped provide meals to those in need in Caserta, southern Italy, alongside local volunteers. The project was organized by a local church.
His story leads from Goma to Florence: from a dire situation in the Congo, the eastern part of which is one of the most dangerous in the world, to the cradle of the Italian Renaissance and his own in Florence.
Italy has welcomed more than 300 migrants via humanitarian corridors over the past two weeks. The new right-wing government has said it says 'yes' to the corridors and 'no' to traffickers and "illegal immigration".
Two groups of Afghan refugees have arrived in Italy through humanitarian corridors recently: 26 people landed in Rome from Tehran on Tuesday and 152 people from Pakistan arrived last week.