Greek authorities have moved almost all of the 12,000 displaced migrants and refugees on Lesbos island into a new camp after the Moria camp where they were living was destroyed by fire. Since the fire that engulfed Moria camp on Lesbos island nearly two weeks ago, more than 500 of the 12,000 displaced migrants and…
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has warned that “violent riots” outside a new government coronavirus clinic set up to provide care to migrants, asylum seekers and refugees amid the coronavirus pandemic represent a growing “anti-migrant” movement in Greece. MSF said “anti-migrant” protesters attacked its pediatric clinic outside the Moria refugee camp in Lesbos after…
NGOs warn that coronavirus may soon spread at Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos, where some 13,000 people live in cramped conditions. Such an outbreak, experts say, would see the island struggle to cope. Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos is the biggest in Europe. Originally conceived to hold 3,000…
THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Several hundred asylum-seekers camped outside a police station Monday in northern Greece, lining up to be arrested and formally processed as a surge in illegal migration overwhelmed authorities in the region. After sleeping on benches and patches of grass in a central square in Thessaloniki, Greece’s second-largest city, the migrants formed…
An Ethiopian Christian priest blesses another refugee during a Sunday mass outside an orthodox church near Moria camp in the island of Lesbos, Greece. Many Migrants and refugees from Ethiopia and Eritrea take part in the Sunday services. – Petros Giannakouris , The Associated Press LESBOS, Greece — At the heart of Moria, an overcrowded…