February, 2011. Hundreds of people come to the streets in Benghazi, northeast Libya, to protest against the regime of Muammar Gaddafi: that’s the moment when the struggle between Libyan army and the rebel forces starts. More than 30.000 people are killed during the civil war: the upheaval cause an humanitarian emergency, with thousands of foreign workers coming from all Africa forced to flee. IOM, the International Organization for Migration, estimates that 2.5 million migrant workers were in Libya before the crisis. 68.000 migrants decide to catch a boat and try to reach Lampedusa. At least 5.000 of them will never complete their journey. February, 2013. The Italian Government declares the end of the so-called North African Emergency. Thousands of refugees are left alone, without jobs, food and housing. Refugees are offered by the government 500 euros and a special permit to travel in Europe as a “measure to accompany exit”, a tacit invitation to return to their country of origin. Many of them accepted this sum and continue to live in Italy as homeless. Some refugees moved illegally to France. Few of them decided to reach Berlin, Germany, and to set up a protest camp at Oranienplatz, in Kreuzberg. This is the story of these human beings, struggling for their life.

Mauro Mondello (1982, Messina, Italy) is an italian free lance reporter and videomaker. He worked as a correspondant from South America since 2008 to 2010 for Peace Reporter and Gianni Minà’s Latinoamerica. Since 2011 he works as a correspondent from all the Arab World. In 2014 he covered the Ukrainian Crisis for Avvenire and The Atlantic Magazine. His reportages has been published, among others, on Repubblica, Rivista Studio, Panorama, Avvenire, East, Pagina 99. He collaborates with Radio Rai, Radio Capital and Radio 24.