#Pournara

One hundred and fifty unaccompanied minors currently at Pournara are to be transferred to other accommodation units in Famagusta, while the interior ministry said that 317 irregular migrants had arrived in ...

Amid all the furore of the state of the Pournara migrant facility this past week, the delicate issue arose of questioning whether all migrants who claim to be minors are ...

As a row over living conditions at Pournara reception centre rumbled on, child commissioner Despo Michaelidou on Tuesday clarified that she had misspoken the previous day when she said that ...

In the wake of the uproar over living conditions for unaccompanied minors at Pournara migrant reception centre, MPs on Monday focused on the delicate subject of how to determine whether ...

More unaccompanied minors are to be housed in hotel units, while some adults will be transferred to a separate centre, the government announced on Monday following the president’s visit ...

Police dogs were seen in Pournara early Monday morning in advance of a visit there by President Nicos Anastasiades, who will see for himself the conditions after it came under ...

President Nicos Anastasiades will visit the Pournara migrant camp in Kokkinotrimithia on Monday to see for himself the conditions there, which were widely criticised over the last few days. He ...

Nine unaccompanied minors who left the migrant reception centre earlier this week and were sleeping outdoors were on Friday transferred to 24/7 facilities of Hope for Children (HFC), while a solution ...

It’s been three months since a visit by MPs to the Pournara migrant facility revealed that there was drug use and prostitution going on there and that around 300 unaccompanied ...

Around 50 migrants staying at the Pournara reception centre in Kokkinotrimithia took to the highway to protest the living conditions at the centre on Tuesday, blocking traffic in both directions. Drivers ...

Police on Wednesday were investigating whether human traffickers assisted the entry to the Republic of two unaccompanied three-year-old twin girls, one of whom was found wandering alone in the buffer ...

Police on Thursday said they were investigating a murder attempt after a 15-year-old boy allegedly assaulted another teenager with a knife at the Pournara migrant reception centre. Both minors involved “...

Dozens of people were injured during a mass fight at the Pournara migrant reception centre in Kokkinotrimithia early on Wednesday, requiring riot police to intervene. An earlier fight broke out ...

Increasing migratory flows into Cyprus require comprehensive management of the asylum system in line with international laws and norms to implement fast and fair asylum procedures, the UNHCR representative in ...

People who live near Pournara refugee reception centre protested on Saturday, demanding the state limit the number of migrants there to 600 and improve their living conditions. The two-hour protest by ...

We spoke to asylum seekers from Sierra Leone and Guinea, tracing their journey from Pournara reception centre to their plans for the future.  

The first 14 asylum seekers residing in Cyprus, including the two stranded in the buffer zone, will be flying to the Vatican on December 16, Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said on Saturday. ...

There are no magic solutions to tackling the migration issue, Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said on Thursday, stating the government’s determination to protect the country’s interests amidst reactions ...

The inalienable protection of an individual’s right not to be subjected to torture, inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment, and the prohibition of such treatment or conduct, constitute the ...

Tents have been erected at Ayios Nicolaos fishing shelter in Protaras for 102 irregular migrants from Syria who disembarked on Tuesday, five days after their boat arrived in the Cape Greco ...

A UN Refugee Agency (Unhcr) official has expressed concern over the wellbeing of 200 migrant children, half of whom unaccompanied, currently hosted at an overcrowded reception centre, the organisation said on ...

Three Syrian migrants were spotted in Liopetri on Tuesday afternoon after passing into government-controlled areas from the north police said. Police arrived on the scene after Liopetri residents spotted the ...

Police in anti-riot gear gathered outside the Pournara migrant reception centre on Monday morning after residents there staged a protest calling for permission to leave the premises. The migrants said ...

THE interior ministry on Tuesday condemned clashes between more than 600 migrants on Monday night at the overcrowded Pournara reception centre outside the capital, which left 35 people injured and caused considerable ...