Greece to close Samos island migrant camp by year end
Following a fire at a migrant camp on the island of Samos, the Greek government has announced that it intends to close the camp by the end of the year.
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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.
Greek refugee camps should be evacuated, EU civil liberties commission says
The civil liberties commission of the European Parliament has called on the EU to take immediate action to prevent an outbreak of Covid-19 among refugees and migrants in the overcrowded camps on the Greek islands.
Sea-Watch calls for cruise ships to evacuate migrants from Greek islands
Cruises across Europe have been suspended because of the coronavirus emergency. Migrant sea rescue organization Sea-Watch wants the empty cruise ships to be used to evacuate migrants from the Greek islands.
Greek islands migrant camps: New restrictions to contain coronavirus
Migrants camps on the Greek islands have been put on lockdown for at least two weeks to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus. No volunteers will be allowed in the camps, and school classes for migrant children have been suspended.
Greek islands shut down in strike as locals protest migrant camps
Several Greek islands, including Lesbos, have launched a labor stoppage following "extremely aggressive" clashes between police and anti-refugee protesters. Locals continue to call for an end to migrant camps.
Greek islanders take anti-camp protest to Athens
Out of protest against government plans to build a network of detention camps on the Greek Aegean islands to replace overcrowded existing ones, hundreds of islanders on Thursday demonstrated in central Athens. They announced legal challenges and obstruction of the construction of the new facilities.
UNHCR says conditions 'alarming' on Aegean Islands in Greece
UNHCR is appealing to Greek authorities to increase efforts to put an end to "alarming" overcrowding and precarious conditions for migrants staying on the Greek islands of Lesbos, Chios, Samos, Kos, and Leros.
Riots in overcrowded Greek migrant camp on Samos
In Vathy, in the overcrowded migrant camp on the Greek island of Samos, news agencies are reporting that riots have broken out. Fires were started and the police were met with stones and protests when they arrived to break up the unrest.
Inside Europe: A new migrant crisis in Greece
Greece is living a new migrant crisis. The number of people arriving, mainly on the islands close to Turkey, has more than doubled since July. The reception facilities on these islands are now massively overcrowded and conditions are deteriorating for the migrants and also for the islanders. John Laurenson sent this Postcard from Samos.
Overcrowded migrant camp on Greek Samos island evacuated after violence, fire
At least three people were hurt in a clash between asylum seekers in a town on the Greek island of Samos. After mass violence erupted and fires broke out in the severely overcrowded migrant camp, Greek authorities evacuated the camp.
Migrants continue to flow from Turkey into Greece
The constant influx of refugees and migrants by boat to the shores of Greece's eastern Aegean islands from Turkey continues at an alarming rate this week, with close to 700 people arriving on Lesbos, Chios, and Samos in the past 48 hours.