Refugees find shelter outside a Lidl supermarket after a fire destroyed Moria refugee camp on the island of Lesbos on September 11. (Milos Bicanski / Getty Images) The fire at Greece’s notorious Moria refugee camp left over 12,000 people without shelter, but the new camp built to replace it holds only 3,000. The deliberate overcrowding…
Migrants at the Kara Tepe refugee camp, on the island of Lesbos, Greece. Around 7,600 refugees and migrants have settled at the new tent city after successive fires on September 9 devastated the Moria refugee camp. Picture: Panagiotis Balaskas/AP Several weeks ago, Moria, Europe’s biggest refugee camp, was burnt to the ground. Less than two…
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…
A desperate scramble from Syria’s Idlib province has begun. Pouring from the last rebel stronghold as state troops advance, the region’s weary populace face a perilous journey. The road north is their only real hope—but strafed daily by machine gun fire and aircraft missiles, it’s a daunting prospect. Still, if they’re to reach the Turkish…
As the possibility of another exodus increases, Greece’s decrepit refugee camps expose how the EU wasted the past three years. Afghan men gather outside the main gate of the Moria camp as migrants wait to be processed on the Greek island of Lesbos on Oct. 22, 2015. SPENCER PLATT/GETTY IMAGES A few weeks ago, the entrance…