The UK authorities have intercepted 17 migrants after they crossed the English Channel on 28 January, while another 78 people were equally intercepted by the French counterparts on the same day trying to cross the Channel on four boats. UK immigration minister Chris Philp said “our intelligence sharing with our French counterparts through the new […]
One dead and 10 left injured after their vehicle, suspected for smuggling migrants, was overturned during a police chase at Kozani, Northern Greece, on 29 January. Greek media agencies reported that the driver lost control of the vehicle in an effort to elude police that had chased them after speeding through the Polymylos toll checkpoint […]
Zeinaf never imagined that her journey to Europe would take three years going through multiple risks, and she is still stuck in northern Bosnia, with her parents and two siblings, in a hope to cross into Croatia in what they call the ‘Game’. “I stay here, don’t go school,” Zeinaf, the 11-year-old girl from Iraq, […]
Greece plans to deport 1,450 migrants whose asylum applications were rejected and are currently at migrant reception centres on Lesbos and other Aegean islands to Turkey. To ease the process, Greece had submitted the request to the European Commission and EU border agency Frontex and asked Turkey to respect the 2016 EU-Turkey agreement to return […]
The International Organization for Migration alerts on the miserable conditions of nearly 3,000 migrants who are stranded in northern Bosnia as the temperatures fall, Reuters reported. Some of the migrants are sleeping in muddy and freezing makeshift tents after evacuating Lipa camp which was partially burned two weeks ago. “Over the past two weeks, we […]
The number of illegal migrants crossing the external border of Europe fell 13% last year to around 124 000 which is the lowest since 2013, European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) said in a Report on 8 January. It is mostly due to the coronavirus restrictions put in place, Syrians remained the most frequently […]
A total of 1,200 migrants were obliged to sleep rough in the tough winter after their camp in northwestern Bosnia was set on fire, probably by migrants displeased with its temporary closure, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on 23 december. The Lipa camp, located at Bihac city, “never got connected to the main […]
Despite the tough restrictions and lockdowns due to the coronavirus between the countries, at least 1,773 migrants died within and en route to Europe this year, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on 18 December. That means every day at least five deaths were recorded. A total of 729 deaths had been confirmed in […]
Bosnia must take urgent action to improve the dire conditions of thousands of migrants and asylum seekers in the northwest of the country, the Council of Europe’s human rights commissioner, Dunja Mijatovic, said in a letter to the Bosnian government on 11 December. This is the second European warning of a looming humanitarian crisis after […]