Africa: Germany Braces for Thousands of New Migrants

1 September 2015

The southern German state of Bavaria pleaded for aid from the rest of the country on Tuesday as it became the latest beachhead in the epic arrival of African and Middle Eastern migrants in Europe.

Trains full of migrants who have made it to Greece and then through Eastern Europe on the so-called Balkan Route have begun arriving in Germany - the country many of them wanted to reach in the first place.

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