The temporary facility at Kara Tepe, near the island's port of Mytilene, can take up to 5,000 people. Greek officials say some of the migrants are unwilling to move to the new camp as they hope to leave the island.
Several fires have mostly destroyed the Moria refugee camp, home to more than 12,000 asylum seekers. There are no known casualties so far. Authorities are now investigating reports of arson.
Greece recorded its first coronavirus case in the overcrowded migrant camp of Moria on the island of Lesbos, two migration ministry officials said on Wednesday. The case concerns a 40-year-old male who recently recently returned to Moria from Athens.
Germany’s top football team, Bayern Munich, which played and won the Champions League final* against Paris Saint Germain (PSG) on August 23 boasts a very talented player among its ranks -- a player with a unique past. That’s because Alphonso Davies grew up in a refugee camp in Ghana. Today, he uses his fame to come to the aid of others who, like his Liberian parents, were forced to flee their countries too.
At Zaatari camp in Jordan, refugees are growing herbs, tomatoes and cucumbers... even though the camp is located in the desert, water is scarce and the land is infertile. Their solution involves recycling old mattresses...
Kenya's Kakuma refugee camp has managed to keep the coronavirus out of the living quarters of around 200,000 refugees. The camp houses mostly refugess from Sudan and Somalia. That kind of sucess is also thanks to an independent news magazine run by the refugees themselves.
Life in Malawi's biggest refugee camp has been turned upside down by the coronavirus pandemic. But not every change has been for the worse. Inspirational refugee leader Innocent Magambi tells us what he would like to keep from the crisis.
The novel coronavirus is highly contagious and can spread at an exponential pace. Migrants and refugees living in communal facilities are one of the highest risk groups during the COVID-19 pandemic because social distancing is virtually impossible for them.
Jihadists carried out a coordinated attack on a camp housing thousands of Malian refugees in western Niger, killing three civilians, abducting a guard and sabotaging the water supply, the United Nations said Monday.
Despite recent transfers of migrants to the Greek mainland, some 19,000 people are still living in and around the Moria camp on Lesbos. InfoMigrants spoke to Rosa Duran from Dutch NGO Movement on the Ground to find out more about the actual situation for aid workers, migrants and refugees.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has warned about the potential devastating consequences of a COVID-19 outbreak on millions of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in northeastern Nigeria.
Some 50 unaccompanied refugee children have been flown to Germany from Greece despite COVID-19 concerns. Critics say the number is paltry and the EU is leaving Greece on its own as it hurtles toward another catastrophe.