Moria migrants: Fire destroys Greek camp leaving 13,000 without shelter

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Accommodation is urgently required for some 400 unaccompanied minors  – Reuters One local resident told the BBC almost the whole camp was burning. “Now with the first light I can see that there is a few tents that make it, … Read More

Half of Germans still skeptical about Merkel’s migrant stance: poll

posted in: Germany, News

More than half of German residents are now skeptical about Chancellor Angela Merkel’s famously optimistic quote regarding the 2015 migrant crisis, a poll published by the Augsburger Allgemeine on Saturday found. Read more: Refugees in Germany: From the boat to the Bundeskunsthalle The survey, carried out … Read More

Berlin chair protesters call for evacuation of Moria refugee camp in Greece

Protesters have set up chairs in Berlin to represent residents of the overcrowded Moria camp in Greece. They say the first positive coronavirus test at the camp has made the need for intervention even more urgent. NGOs stage refugee protest … Read More

Migrant gangs are taking over the role of the police in Sweden’s Gothenburg, Polish government says it warned of such a scenario

Law and Justice (PiS) leader Jarosław Kaczyński had warned of a such a turn of events as early as 2015 during the migration crisis. Swedish media has been devoting much attention to the deteriorating situation in the city of Gothenburg, … Read More

Britain deploys military drones to stop migrants in rafts from crossing English Channel

LONDON — Britain this week began deploying sophisticated military drones to patrol the English Channel to end a surge in crossings by desperate migrants trying to reach its shores. A British artillery regiment deployed its Watchkeeper WK450 to fly over … Read More

Italy Resumes Migrant Deportations

Migrants board the ‘MS GNV Azzurra’ quarantine ship which has has been sent on the Italian Pelagie Island of Lampedusa, Aug. 4, 2020, amid the COVID-19 pandemic ROME – Twice-weekly charter flights of up to 80 people who Italian authorities … Read More

‘Anti-Migrant’ Protesters Set Fire, Throw Stones at MSF Clinic in Greece

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 … Read More

Europe’s largest refugee camp braces for COVID-19 outbreak

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 … Read More

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