#irregular migrants

Authorities on Tuesday transferred around 600 migrants from an overcrowded reception centre in Kokkinotrimithia to a facility near Kofinou, in the district of Larnaca, after an outbreak of the coronavirus. An ...

Cyprus could be a ‘workshop of fraternity’, Pope says By Jean Christou and Jonathan Shkurko Pope Francis on Friday wished that Cyprus, an island “marked by a painful division” become ...

Among the 50 migrants that Pope Francis is taking back to Italy with him, are two Cameroonian students stuck in the buffer zone for the past six months as neither the ...

Cyprus was among the areas in the EU that experienced the most significant increase in illegal crossings last month, according to a report by Frontex, the European Border and Coast ...

The government is to seek the European Commission’s permission to suspend asylum applications from those entering the country illegally. The government made the announcement on Wednesday after an emergency ...

Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said Cyprus was in a state of emergency as regards irregular migration, mainly coming through the buffer zone from the breakaway Turkish Cypriot state in the ...

Cyprus signed an agreement Thursday procuring from Israel a modern system to be used for the surveillance of the buffer zone. A defence ministry statement said the agreement was signed ...

The north on Tuesday called on the government to cooperate over the issue of irregular migration, arguing that it is impossible for a single ‘country’ to tackle this on its ...

A 30-year-old man was remanded for eight days on suspicion of people smuggling. The man was arrested after a boat with irregular migrants that he was in, arrived in Paralimni ...

A 31-year-old man is in police custody on suspicion of assisting irregular migrants from Lebanon travel by boat to Cape Greco last week. The man was arrested in Paphos on ...

Police have arrested a foreign national in connection with the arrival of 15 irregular migrants in Kato Pyrgos in the early hours of Saturday. Authorities said it appeared the 12 men and ...

Police on Friday arrested the captain and two passengers of a vessel with irregular migrants spotted off the coast of Cape Greco two days ago, while another 14 were picked up ...

The 64 irregular migrants, including 21 children, who arrived in a large wooden boat at the fishing harbour area in Larnaca at around 3.50pm on Tuesday afternoon, were transferred to the Pournara ...

The UNHCR is ready to provide further help to Cyprus to handle the influx of irregular migrants, its assistant high commissioner for protection Gillian Triggs said on Wednesday. According to ...

Police on Tuesday said they arrested three men and one woman during an operation on Monday evening in the buffer zone between Lymbia and Athienou where migrants were seen arriving ...

A group of 75 irregular migrants arrived by boat from Syria on Monday afternoon in the Famagusta district. The wooden boat was spotted by marine police east of Cavo Greco at 2.40...

The Council of Europe has called on Cyprus to justify its prevention of boats with migrants from arriving on the island, conditions at reception centres and its reasons for striking ...

Intense discussions are taking place in Cyprus over what it expects from the EU’s proposed new migration policy, with the government insisting the Republic is overburdened. Foreign Minister Nikos ...