'Moria camp is burning now. Can you hear me?'
As fires raged through the Moria migrant camp on Lesbos late Tuesday night, residents began messaging InfoMigrants. Some sent photos and videos, capturing the disaster as they experienced it.
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Greece reports first coronavirus case in island migrant camp
The overcrowded camp on the Greek island of Chios houses thousands of asylum seekers. The coronavirus outbreak has spread into migrant camps on the mainland, but had yet to surface in island camps.
Migrant reception camp in Ventimiglia closes
The prefecture of Imperia announced the closure of Campo Roja, the reception center managed by the Red Cross in Ventimiglia, at the Italian border with France.
200 homeless after fire hits migrant camp on Samos
Scores of asylum seekers were left homeless when two fires tore through a migrant camp on the Greek island of Samos, a migration ministry official said Monday.
Migrant camp in Paris cleared by police
Over 1,400 migrants have been moved out of the largest remaining makeshift camp in northern Paris. The French government has vowed to crack down on irregular migration, including makeshift settlements in and around the capital.
German state considers bringing refugee children from Greece unilaterally
Several German state governments have said they would be prepared to take in refugee children from Greece. One state, Thuringia, has even suggested it would do so in the face of the refusal in Berlin.
Bosnian authorities remove hundreds of migrants from infamous Vucjak camp
Bosnia-Herzegovina has begun to move migrants from an informal camp near the country's northern border with Croatia. The site in Vucjak fell into international disrepute for its squalid living conditions.
Hundreds of migrants taken to mainland Greece from overcrowded camps
In the latest attempt to ease the overcrowding in migrant camps on the Greek Aegean islands, over 350 migrants left Lesbos and Chios over the weekend. 10,000 migrants have been moved to mainland Greece since July, but given the unabated influx of migrants from Turkey, that effort is not nearly enough.
Fears that winter will bring a humanitarian catastrophe in Bosnia
In the Vucjak migrant camp in Bosnia, over 800 people remain without running water, electricity or functioning toilets. Local authorities have announced that two other official camps will soon close, leaving more than 2,000 additional people sleeping outside. With winter approaching, many fear a humanitarian catastrophe.
Bosnian authorities cut water to migrant camp near Croatian border
Local authorities in the town of Bihac in Bosnia-Herzegovina have cut off the water supply to the nearby Vucjak migrant camp. They want to force the government to move migrants from the overcrowded site.
Tunisia announces closure of Medenine migrant centre
Tunisia has decided to close the Medenine center for migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers due to overcrowding and inhumane conditions.
Europe's apathy toward humanitarian rescue outrages NGOs
Aid organizations SOS Mediterranee and Doctors Without Borders (MSF) are being forced to end their life-saving Mediterranean rescue mission. MSF managing director Florian Westphal told DW the situation is "catastrophic."