Coronavirus: Migrants moved out of reception centre after testing positive
Following a fracas all 16 migrants at the Kofinou migrant reception centre who tested positive for the coronavirus on Tuesday were moved to other facilities,...
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Twenty-four migrants arrive in Paphos
Twenty-four migrants from Syria arrived on Friday night in the Paphos district. The group, 16 men, three women and five children, came to Cyprus from...
Changing the landscape of the island
Foreigners who now live in Cyprus, for a wealth of reasons, give their view on how the island sees them. Bureaucracy, feeling outside, making a...
18 migrants arrive in Kato Pyrgos
Eighteen Syrian migrants arrived in the Kato Pyrgos area through the north on Thursday morning. According to police, the male migrants were spotted at 1.30am...
Boat with 20-plus migrants off Yialousa handed over to Turkish coastguard
Turkish Cypriot authorities said Monday they had spotted a boat with 23 migrants off the coast of Yialousa. Reports said the boat had been spotted...
Ministry expanding health care for migrants
The health ministry is expanding access to various forms of health care, including psychological support, for those at the reception centres in Kofinou and Menoyia....
Cyprus and Lebanon to up shared strategies in fight against illegal arrivals (updated)
Lebanon and Cyprus vowed to extend joint efforts against illegal migrants on Tuesday during a meeting between Interior Minister Nicos Nouris and head of Lebanon’s...
Human Rights Watch claims Cyprus illegally pushing back migrant boats
Cypriot coast guard forces summarily pushed back, abandoned, expelled or returned more than 200 migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers coming from Lebanon during the first...
Over 4,000 asylum applications in Cyprus recorded in 2020
Cyprus saw a total of 4,393 asylum applicants up to August this year, according to data disclosed by the interior ministry’s asylum service. Of the...
Twenty-one Syrians arrive at Cape Greco
A boat carrying 21 people from Syria arrived at Cape Greco on Wednesday afternoon and are due to be taken to the Pournara reception centre....
Divided Europe seeks to overhaul defunct migration policies
The European Union’s executive proposed on Wednesday overhauling the bloc’s broken migration and asylum rules, seeking to end years of feuds and bitterness over the...
World becoming less tolerant of migrants
The world is becoming less tolerant of migrants, according to a poll released on Wednesday as Europe prepared to unveil a new asylum plan in...
European Commission to unveil ‘cash-for-refugees’ plan
German’s Angela Merkel embarks this week on her third bold attempt to reshape European migration, but she faces an uphill task convincing other EU leaders...
84 migrants voluntarily returned home
Eighty four migrants voluntarily returned to their countries from Cyprus on Friday, the UN’s International Organization for Migration announced on Sunday. Of these 21 were...
‘They should have let us die in the water’: desperate Lebanese migrants sent back
For years, small boats have left northern Lebanon’s coast, packed with desperate migrants hoping to reach European shores. Until recently, they carried mostly Syrian and...
Lebanese tell of lives lost trying to make it to Cyprus
While two people were arrested for bringing third country nationals illegally into Cyprus on Wednesday, and many on the island worry about the increasing inflow...
Two arrested as nine migrants arrive in Cape Greco
Two men aged 50 and 53 were remanded on Thursday for eight days for allegedly assisting migrants to arrive in Cyprus. They were arrested on...
Greece struggles to bring migrants into temporary camp after fire
Greek authorities were still struggling on Wednesday to move thousands of migrants sleeping rough into a temporary camp, a week after the overcrowded Moria migrant...
Greek PM says time for European solidarity to be expressed in practice
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Tuesday that Europe needs to show practical solidarity with Greece on the migration issue. “It’s time for Europe’s...
Days of terror spent at sea
A Lebanese migrant’s failed attempt to start a new life in Cyprus By George Eid, Middle East Correspondent For the dozens of Lebanese men, women...
