The project that promotes a future for the past
An EU-funded project in Kato Drys is making a difference to refugees’ lives and keeping traditional skills alive By Martin Clark I have been leading...
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Syrian refugees face Ramadan penury amid Lebanon’s economic ruin
Hussein al-Khaled and his family have lived in a makeshift hut in Lebanon for a decade since fleeing the war in neighbouring Syria, but this...
Five-year-old Syrian boy reunited with his parents
A five-year-old Syrian migrant boy stranded in the north by himself for 45 days was this week reunited with his parents. The boy’s 27-year-old father...
Over 7,000 asylum applications in 2020, backlog now almost 20,000
A total of 7,036 new asylum applications were submitted in 2020 in Cyprus, raising the year’s backlog to nearly 20,000, Unhcr Cyprus reported on Thursday....
Syria: end the sanctions
The Syrian civil war is ten years old this week, and it’s time to stop it. At least half a million Syrians are dead, a...
Lawmakers say government has left refugees out to dry
Lawmakers on Tuesday harangued the government for leaving refugees renting premises on Turkish Cypriot land in the south out to dry. Livestock farmers in the...
Tough criteria for citizenship slammed as ‘racist’
Migrant support NGO Kisa on Tuesday slammed a new bill with tougher criteria for citizenship as racist. “The ministry has prepared and submitted the bill...
Decree bans new Syrian refugees from settling in Chlorakas
The interior ministry quietly issued a decree disallowing any more Syrian refugees from settling in the coastal village of Chlorakas in Paphos, as numbers were...
Migrant boat turned away, given supplies
Police said on Friday that a boat with migrants was refused landing while 19 other Syrian refugees were picked up in Peristerona later in the...
Famagusta refugees form initiative to fight parliamentary elections
An initiative formed by Famagusta refugees announced on Tuesday they would run as independents in May’s parliamentary elections in a bid to win a place...
78 per cent of asylum claims are bogus says minister
More than three quarters of migrants who arrive in Cyprus and apply for asylum are not refugees, Interior Minister Nicos Nouris said on Wednesday in...
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...
More could be done to help vulnerable refugees, MPs say
The government agency tasked with providing assistance to refugees could be doing a lot more, opposition MPs said on Tuesday. Lawmakers were reviewing the 2021...
Varosha: would I stay or would I go?
The reopening of parts of Varosha to visitors has raised the most painful ‘what if’ question for refugees By Evie Andreou Varosha refugee Christos Fysentzou...
Visiting the past: Varosha refugees return for glimpse of home (with video)
Heart-wrenching images mixed with sweet childhood memories have been all over social media and news portals since last week when the Turkish Cypriot ‘government’, with...
Phedonos rebuffs Akel accusations that he’s illegally evicting refugees
The mayor of Paphos has hit back at criticism concerning the recent intervention at Turkish Cypriot properties in Paphos old town, levelled by main opposition...
Migrants land in Kapparis area (updated)
A boat with 51 migrants arrived on Saturday morning in the Kapparis area in Famagusta. The boat landed at around 11am in the buffer zone...
Boat with 19 Syrian refugees brought ashore in north
Nineteen Syrian refugees, including children, were brought ashore in the north on Wednesday morning off the coast of Livera, reports said. The boat was spotted...
Refugees in Cyprus share their stories
On the occasion of World Refugee Day 2020, the Cyprus office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) released on Thursday videos of...
Syrian refugees arrive in north, two shot
A group of 30 Syrians arrived early on Thursday in the north by boat with two men being shot and injured whilst trying to escape...