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A 52-year-old man was jailed on Tuesday for two years for assisting third-country nationals with illegally entering the country. The case emerged last February when a small boat with 21 people – 13 ...

Britain’s interior minister Suella Braverman said she was convinced Rwanda was a safe country to resettle migrants who had arrived in Britain illegally but she declined to set any ...

A UNHCR report on Monday aimed at identifying perceptions and attitudes towards refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants and comparing trends and shifts in public opinion since the last such survey in 2018. ...

Minster of Health, Popi Kanari on Tuesday met with the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) Cyprus office, Shaikh Irshad Ali, the ministry announced. The minister met to discuss ...

The government is hoping that an ΕU action plan to deal with irregular migration flows in the Eastern Mediterranean will be a permanent solution to Cyprus’ issue. The complexity Nicosia ...

The Mediterranean Sea is the deadliest passage on the planet, activist Jason Apostolopoulos said, at an event held recently at the Cyprus University of Technology (Tepak). The event, during which ...

More than 1,300 migrants have been rescued in three separate operations off the southern tip of Italy, the coastguard said on Saturday, two weeks after at least 74 people died when their ...

An appeal was made at the weekend to the EU border agency to help Cyprus manage its migratory flow. The difficulties Cyprus is facing managing the flow of illegal migrants ...

A 40-year-old man found guilty of people smuggling migrants to Cyprus was sentenced to a year-and-a-half in jail by the Larnaca criminal court on Tuesday. The decision was made six ...

Two men have been jailed for almost two years on human trafficking charges, the police announced on Friday. The Larnaca-Famagusta criminal court ruled the two men, 37 and 35, were guilty on ...

A 24-year-old man was sentenced to two and a half years in prison by the Larnaca criminal court on Monday, after finding him guilty of aiding the illegal migration of ...

Three people drowned and more than a dozen were believed to be missing in the second migrant shipwreck off Greece this week, authorities said on Tuesday. The coast guard said 19 ...

By Sebnem Eroglu Many people migrate to another country to earn a decent income and to attain a better standard of living. But my recent research shows that across all ...

2022 in review: more migrants are coming than are being processed or sent back and authorities can’t keep up Migration is a polarising topic, although it’s probably fair to ...

The interior ministry on Monday sent 48 international protection seekers from Cyprus to Germany, as part of a pilot programme on voluntary relocation. The ministry said these were the first of ...

Police have arrested a 46-year-old man after a further 18 irregular migrants were picked up in Cape Greco shortly after midnight on Sunday morning. According to police, shortly after midnight eight ...

At least four people were killed when a small boat loaded with migrants heading for British shores from France capsized in the freezing waters of the English Channel early on ...

A charity-run rescue boat carrying 33 migrants was allowed to dock and disembark on the southern Italian island of Lampedusa early Friday, while two more NGO vessels with more than 500 people ...

Authorities on Sunday said 13 migrants had been rescued from a boat off the coast of Cape Greco, which included three minors. The boat’s 24-year-old driver was arrested and remanded ...

EU agency tasked with border control has high praise for Cyprus’ rate of returning failed asylum seekers While Cyprus has been criticised for its treatment of migrants, it has been ...

Police arrested a second person following the arrival of a boat with illegal passengers off the coast of Famagusta on Saturday. He is reportedly a minor, but authorities are yet ...

A little over a third of the interior ministry’s budget for 2023 will go to development projects, as the administration works to push through a number of reforms, including in ...

A 24-year-old man was remanded in police custody on Sunday after a boat carrying 18 irregular migrants landed in the Famagusta area. A police statement said the boat arrived at about 12 ...

Cyprus, Italy, Greece and Malta on Saturday jointly criticised EU member states for not sharing the responsibility of hosting migrants, saying the four countries collectively are “bearing the heaviest burden ...