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Migrants still stuck in limbo on Lesbos after Moria camp blazes

Thousands of migrants have been sleeping rough after multiple fires hit the notoriously overcrowded Moria camp last week.

Greece

Migrants moved to new Lesbos camp as Mitsotakis demands more EU help

Greek authorities have promised that 12,000 migrants and asylum-seekers left homeless after fire gutted an overcrowded camp will be moved shortly to a new tent city.

Greece

Displaced migrants on Lesbos protest in wake of fire at Moria camp

Over 12,000 people were left homeless after fires on Tuesday and Wednesday gutted the Moria camp in the midst of a coronavirus lockdown.

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Thousands of migrants, still living on the streets, protest in Lesbos

Thousands of protesting migrants left homeless on the Greek island of Lesbos after fires destroyed the notoriously overcrowded Moria camp gathered on a road leading to the island's main town Friday, demanding to be allowed to leave.

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Greece

New fire at overcrowded migrant camp on Greek island of Lesbos

4,000 migrants who had left the camp for the island's main port of Mytilini to board ships for the mainland threw stones at police blocking the road.

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Lesbos' migrants sleep on the streets after fire at Moria camp

Thousands of migrants slept on the streets on the Greek island of Lesbos after being evacuated from their camp as fires broke out early on Wednesday.

Greece

Thousands of migrants flee massive fire at Lesbos camp

Some 12,500 people were living at the Moria camp and the surrounding area.

Greece

COVID-19: Crowded Greek refugee camp quarantined after case confirmed

As of Aug. 31, the Moria camp on the island of Lesbos housed 12,714 people, well over its capacity of 2,757.

Greece

Two migrants test positive for COVID-19 in overcrowded Greek camp

Officials say the two who tested positive did not display symptoms of COVID-19. Other migrants in the facility and people who come in contact with them are being tested.

Greece

Greece transfers almost 400 migrants from Lesbos island to mainland

This is the first massive transfer of asylum seekers from Moria camp since the start of confinement imposed by the Greek government on March 23 to stem the spread of coronavirus.

Greece

Greek island migrant camps 'not prepared for COVID-19'

The warning comes after Greek authorities announced that 150 people tested positive at a locked-down migrant hotel in the country’s south.

Greece

Euroviews. Using empty Greek hotels to host refugees threatened by COVID-19 is a win-win scenario ǀ View

While the first attempt to use empty hotels for quarantining a thousand of the most vulnerable migrants on the Greek islands has just been announced by the European Commission, more remains to be done.

Greece

Migrants exposed to coronavirus

Migrants arriving in Greece say they are being given no protection from coronavirus as UNHCR describes conditions in some camps as inhumane

Greece

Euroviews. Gunshots, summary trials, deportations: the reality for refugees in the EU-Turkey stand-off ǀ View

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s cynical move to open his western EU borders to allow refugees and migrants to leave - while keeping his southern border to Syria shut to asylum seekers desperate to escape the onslaught there - poses an enormous challenge to Greece and the European Union.

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Migrants arrive on Lesbos with others blocked at land border

While thousands of migrants have been blocked at Turkey's land border with Greece, others have been getting into the country by sea.

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Migrants arrive in Lesbos after Turkey says it can't stop them leaving

Ankara has repeatedly threatened to "open the gates" and let migrants into Europe amid several disputes with European states.

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Demonstrators clash with police in protests over Greece migrant camps

Hundreds of protesters on the Greek island of Lesbos on Wednesday threw stones at police who responded with tear gas, stun grenades and rubber bullets

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Greece to build new asylum camps

Greece will set up new camps for asylum seekers on its Aegean islands, hoping to end months of overcrowding and violence within its resettlement scheme. The new camps will allow asylum seekers to go out during the day, but they will be locked in at night.

Greece

MSF raises the alarm over sick children at Moria migrant camp

Youngsters with epilepsy, diabetes and heart disease are trapped on the overcrowded Greek camp.

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Heavy rain and cold weather hits migrants on Greek island of Lesbos

Migrants and asylum seekers already endure "inhumane" living conditions on the Greek island of Lesbos. Now they've got heavy rain and cold weather to contend with, too.