#migrants

Ninety-four people have been arrested so far this year in connection with human smuggling offences, head of the Police Aliens and Immigration Unit Petros Zenios said on Monday as efforts ...

The number of migrants stranded in the buffer zone has reached 86, as arrivals continue unabated to the Green Line without access to asylum proceedings, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said ...

We spoke to some of the asylum seekers who’ve been stranded in the buffer zone in Cyprus, some of them since mid-May.

A total of 145 persons have been repatriated or deported during the last week, in the context of voluntary and mandatory repatriations of third-country (non-EU) nationals, it emerged on Friday. Since ...

The government has plans to improve the infrastructure at Pournara migrant reception centre, where “excellent work” is being done, Deputy Immigration Minister Nicholas Ioannides said on Tuesday. Speaking after his ...

The Republic will not accept migrants currently in the buffer zone, immigration deputy minister Nicholas Ioannides said on Tuesday. Speaking after a visit to the Pournara migrant reception centre, Ioannides ...

Claims and counterclaims over jurisdiction of Green Line, but why now? It has now been over a month that a group dubbed the ‘buffer zone migrants’ have been stranded within ...

A luxury cruise ship rescued 68 migrants trying to reach the Spanish Canary Islands in a fishing boat that had stalled in rough seas, Spanish authorities and the cruise operator said ...

Cyprus does not accept lectures from anyone on how to manage the issue of migrants, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Friday, as the UN peacekeeping force (Unficyp) and the UNHCR ...

The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Wednesday that it is “alarmed” by the safety of 31 migrants trapped in Cyprus’ buffer zone, after two weeks of migrants being forced to ...

The 27 migrants stuck in the buffer zone in the heat dealing with dizziness, mosquitoes and fainting, the UNHCR said on Tuesday. Speaking to the Cyprus Mail, UN refugee agency spokeswoman ...

The government on Tuesday remained tight-lipped over mounting criticism on its handling of 27 migrants stranded in the buffer zone, with President Nikos Christodoulides stressing a new influx of arrivals will ...

Another 14 migrants have arrived in the buffer zone, raising the number of people stuck there to 27, the head of the UNHCR office in Cyprus Katja Johanna Saha said on Sunday. ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Friday that he is in contact with the UN peacekeeping force (Unficyp) regarding 13 migrants reported to be living in the buffer zone. The migrants, including ...

Cyprus has repatriated a total of 4,491 migrants who were staying in Cyprus without residence documents so far this year, the police said on Friday. This figure is more than 1,000 more ...

The number of irregular migrant arrivals has significantly decreased following the suspension of asylum applications for Syrian nationals, according to a Philenews report. Despite Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s call ...

Charges were dropped on Tuesday against nine Egyptian men accused of causing one of the Mediterranean’s deadliest shipwrecks off Greece last year, after a Greek court said it had ...

There have been no new migrant arrivals in Cyprus since the joint visit by President Nikos Christodoulides and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to Lebanon at the beginning ...

The state’s immigration measures have brought positive results, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou, said on Monday, however “external factors” remain the sticking point. Speaking before a meeting with Paphos community ...

Fifteen more Syrian migrants arrived on Wednesday morning in the Limnitis area, after they arrived on a speed boat to the north. The 15 migrants, seven men, four women, and four ...

Over a hundred migrants were sent back, police said on Sunday, after the individuals were found to be residing in Cyprus illegally. According to police 181 people were returned to their ...

Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou will outline the need to increase migrant returns at an EU ministerial meeting on Monday. According to a ministry statement, Ioannou departs for Ghent, Belgium later ...

Whereas the government is doing all it can to contain and manage the influx of migrants, the situation could still spiral out of control especially if neighbouring Lebanon collapses as ...

Cyprus’ treatment of asylum seekers and pushbacks were included in a number of significant human rights issues in the latest US Department of State report published on Tuesday, which included ...