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17.08.2026, bdnews24
The Bangladesh Embassy in Cairo has released an initial report detailing the survival of 29 Europe-bound Bangladeshi migrants rescued off Egypt’s Marsa Matrouh after drifting in the Mediterranean for 10 days. In a report sent on Sunday, the embassy said local police rescued the group on Aug 13 when their rubber boat drifted off course after launching from Tobruk, Libya, towards Greece with the aid of a human trafficking ring. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Egypt
17.08.2026, nd
The state-supported repatriation programme in Germany is intended to be voluntary. However, refugee organisations have criticised the pressure under which those affected are forced to leave the country. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Deutschland
16.08.2026, Reuters
Hundreds of people on the move, who recently entered Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta staged a protest on a popular urban beach on Sunday, urging Spanish authorities to grant them asylum instead of sending them back to Morocco. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Marocco, Spanien
16.08.2026, taz
Moroccan security forces have prevented hundreds of people from entering the Spanish exclave. Calls to do so had been made on social media. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Marocco, Spanien
So far this year, the authorities have withdrawn refugee status from around 2,000 Syrians. That may sound like a small number of cases, but it represents a significant tightening of the rules. read more
16.08.2026, taz.de
Moroccan security forces, deploying around 24,000 officers, prevented a second mass crossing into Ceuta that had been called for on social media for Saturday. Helicopters, water cannons, and tear gas were used to disperse the crowd, most of them Sudanese civil war refugees and West Africans; 294 people were arrested. read more
16.08.2026, al Jazeera
Spanish authorities arrested hundreds of migrants in a fresh crackdown near the Ceuta border, after hundreds protested on a city beach on Sunday demanding asylum rather than deportation. An estimated 5,000 to 8,000 people remain in precarious conditions in the enclave. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Spanien
15.08.2026, nd
Interior Minister Poseck has praised the deportations. Yet individual cases show just how questionable the practice is. Now parents have been separated from their children. read more
The Libyan ‘coastguard’ is once again intercepting boats and threatening rescuers. Eleven bodies are floating in the open sea, and more people have been pushed into the water. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Libya
15.08.2026, Frankfurter Rundschau
On 12 June 2026, the EU Asylum System (GEAS) came into force, harmonising the rules governing asylum procedures and protection standards across all Member States, whilst at the same time severely restricting the right to protection. Among other things, this means that refugees may be deported to the country of first entry without a prior asylum procedure. The Ministry of the Interior, led by Alexander Dobrindt (CSU), wanted to put a young Somali woman on a deportation flight because her first country of entry within the EU was Italy. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Deutschland, Europäische Union, Italien / Malta
13.08.2026, Info Migrants
Over 320 people on the move have been rescued off the Greek island of Crete during several missions that took place in recent days. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Griechenland / Türkei, Libya
13.08.2026, euobserver
The new Entry/Exit System (EES), together with the European Travel Authorisation System (ETIAS), is part of a broader push to technically integrate databases across migration and public security. Europe is quietly building the most extensive digital border surveillance infrastructure in its history – one that people can neither see nor challenge. Whereas the idea behind EES is to automate entry and exit records through biometric data collection, ETIAS aims to pre-screen who is or is not fit to enter the European Union based on criteria assessed by a score: risk to public health, risk to security, and risk of illegal immigration. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Europäische Union
13.08.2026, ECRE
Five years after the Islamist Taliban seized power in Afghanistan, the German government is their closest partner for co-operation in the EU. Germany’s main goal: increasing deportations regardless of human rights risks. More than 200 Afghan men have been returned to Kabul from Germany in the last twelve months. While the deportations were initially limited to criminals, this criterion has been lifted. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Asien, Deutschland, Europäische Union
12.08.2026, Info Migrants
Germany is seeking to resume transfers of people on the move to Italy and Greece. As part of the launch of the EU's Pact on Migration and Asylum earlier this summer, the enforcement of so-called Dublin returns is likely to be pursued more decisively by some EU members like Germany, reports indicate. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Deutschland, Italien / Malta
12.08.2026, Migazin
In early 2026, significantly more people died or went missing on key migration routes to Europe. The figures rose particularly sharply in the central and eastern Mediterranean – even though far fewer people arrived on individual routes. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Europa, Weltweit
12.08.2026, Kathimerini
Uganda is expected to host the first facility for irregular migrants transferred from Europe in 2027 under a plan being developed by five European Union countries. Diplomatic sources said an agreement with the African country has entered an advanced stage. The initiative is being promoted by Germany, Austria, the Netherlands, Denmark and Greece and would involve financial compensation for Uganda. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Afrika, Europäische Union
11.08.2026, taz.de
Latvia is tightening its stance toward migrants at the Belarusian border. Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs announced the launch of "Vilkatis" ("Werewolf"), a security operation involving increased military support for border control. The government frames the rise in migration as a hybrid threat orchestrated by Russia and Belarus. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Osteuropa
11.08.2026, The tahrir institute
More than one million Sudanese refugees in Egypt are facing increasing pressure, being caught between a legal vacuum, crackdown campaigns, and the discourse of “voluntary return”. read more
Language(s): Englisch / English Region(s): Egypt, Sudan
11.08.2026, Pro Asyl
The case of a Somali woman, whose Dublin transfer to Italy is now the subject of a dispute, highlights a fundamental problem: Germany wants to send people back to Italy, but Italy has largely blocked their return since 2022, and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is now even demanding ‘compensation’ for refugees rescued in the Mediterranean by NGOs, including some German organisations. read more
Language(s): Deutsch / German Region(s): Deutschland, Italien / Malta
11.08.2026, Flüchtlingsrat Niedersachsen e.V.
Two months after the GEAS reform came into force, Lower Saxony has still not implemented key improvements for refugee children and particularly vulnerable asylum-seekers. The fact that the state government has still not implemented the few improvements intended for children and particularly vulnerable asylum-seekers, of all things, is evidence of misplaced priorities. read more
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