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A center managed by "one of the UN agencies in Tripoli," was repeatedly targeted this week by "deeply aggressive acts against staff and the people accessing humanitarian services," the UN said. The UN did not specify which of its agencies was attacked. However, the statement came after videos on social media showed people breaking into the premises of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Tripoli, damaging the furniture and driving the occupants away.

The mass arrival of people in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from Morocco continues to be a flashpoint. As migrants continue to arrive, authorities in Ceuta call on the EU for help and Spain is criticized for its handling of the situation. More than a month after it was estimated that more than 72,000 people crossed from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, the government is still grappling with addressing the needs of those who remain.

A group of 14 defendants went on trial in France this week over a 2021 tragedy that saw at least 27 migrants drown, with four other victims still classified as missing. Prosecutors allege that Afghan and Iraqi-Kurdish smugglers set up the attempted crossing of the English Channel from northern France. The ill-fated trip saw dozens of people board an inflatable dinghy which was not certified for open sea and did not have enough life jackets.

Germany's Migration Commissioner Natalie Pawlik wants to fight back against the nation's poor PISA performance by introducing a mandatory year in preschool. The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) tests 15-year-old students in reading, math and science every three years in many nations across the world. Last year's assessment, which included over 90 countries, shows German students scoring worse than ever before.

The crew of the SOS Mediterranee rescued seventy eight people during three separate operations in the Maltese search and rescue region yesterday (September 8), the aid organization said in a statement. Twelve women and two babies aged two days old and five months, were among those rescued. The survivors were reported to have been adrift at sea for about 26 hours and were suffering from heat, exhaustion, dehydration, and fuel burns.

Finland has completed construction of its expansive fence along its eastern border, the Finnish Border Guard announced yesterday (September 7). The border fence, which consists of a 4.5-meter-high fence and a technical surveillance system runs about 200-kilometers along its eastern border to prevent irregular border crossings from Russia.

The landslide victory of the Alternative for Deutschland (AfD) right wing extremist party in Saxony-Anhalt, eastern Germany on Sunday (September 6) has pushed Germany into unfamiliar political territory.

The Alternative for Germany (AfD) could bring in massive changes** should it form a government in Saxony-Anhalt. The far-right party, has taken a massive lead in the Saxony-Anhalt election, although it was not clear if it will be able to form government and have its lead candidate, Ulrich Siegmund, serve as state premier.

"Why should [they] be suffered to swarm into our Settlements, and by herding together establish their Language and Manners to the Exclusion of ours? [...] [They] will shortly be so numerous [...] and will never adopt our Language or Customs." These defamatory comments about refugees and asylum-seekers sound as if they might have been made today by the right-wing populist Alternative for Germany party (AfD).

Twenty‑one Moroccan migrants have been returned to Morocco after throwing stones at a Spanish army patrol and Guardia Civil officers on Ceuta’s El Trampolín beach. Spanish sources say no one was injured and that those involved were identified and agreed to a "voluntary" return. The incident took place on Saturday night (September 5), near El Trampolín, the stretch of coast where one of the largest informal migrant camps appeared after tens of thousands of people entered Ceuta in late July.