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Aid organisation Samusocial has opened a new shelter for homeless single men in a former rest home in the Brussels neighbourhood of Forest.
Seven players from Burundi’s under-19 national handball team were placed in a detention centre after they were discovered in Belgium by migration authorities.
The Belgian state and its immigration department Fedasil owes tens of millions of euros in fines for their handling of the latest refugee crisis.
Asylum seekers and activists set up a new tent camp on Place Flagey over the weekend in order to send a signal to asylum and migration secretary Nicole de Moor that the policy needs to be addresse
As Belgium grapples with record-high numbers of migrants seeking asylum in the country, single men are being turned away from reception centres in order to prioritise women, children and families.
A Brussels court has ruled that the Belgian state and its immigration authority Fedasil must pay the water and electricity bills of a building that is being used by homeless asylum seekers.
A group of about 80 asylum seekers who have been occupying a squat on Rue de la Loi have won their court case against the Belgian state and its migration authority, Fedasil.
The list of migrants seeking asylum in Belgium has dropped from just under 3,000 to 2,100 as the country grapples with an ongoing immigration crisis.
A new reception centre for unaccompanied minors has officially opened in an abandoned hotel in Brussels.
