#migrants

The government on Tuesday remained tight-lipped over mounting criticism on its handling of 27 migrants stranded in the buffer zone, with President Nikos Christodoulides stressing a new influx of arrivals will ...

Another 14 migrants have arrived in the buffer zone, raising the number of people stuck there to 27, the head of the UNHCR office in Cyprus Katja Johanna Saha said on Sunday. ...

President Nikos Christodoulides said on Friday that he is in contact with the UN peacekeeping force (Unficyp) regarding 13 migrants reported to be living in the buffer zone. The migrants, including ...

Cyprus has repatriated a total of 4,491 migrants who were staying in Cyprus without residence documents so far this year, the police said on Friday. This figure is more than 1,000 more ...

The number of irregular migrant arrivals has significantly decreased following the suspension of asylum applications for Syrian nationals, according to a Philenews report. Despite Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s call ...

Charges were dropped on Tuesday against nine Egyptian men accused of causing one of the Mediterranean’s deadliest shipwrecks off Greece last year, after a Greek court said it had ...

There have been no new migrant arrivals in Cyprus since the joint visit by President Nikos Christodoulides and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to Lebanon at the beginning ...

The state’s immigration measures have brought positive results, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou, said on Monday, however “external factors” remain the sticking point. Speaking before a meeting with Paphos community ...

Fifteen more Syrian migrants arrived on Wednesday morning in the Limnitis area, after they arrived on a speed boat to the north. The 15 migrants, seven men, four women, and four ...

Over a hundred migrants were sent back, police said on Sunday, after the individuals were found to be residing in Cyprus illegally. According to police 181 people were returned to their ...

Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou will outline the need to increase migrant returns at an EU ministerial meeting on Monday. According to a ministry statement, Ioannou departs for Ghent, Belgium later ...

Whereas the government is doing all it can to contain and manage the influx of migrants, the situation could still spiral out of control especially if neighbouring Lebanon collapses as ...

Cyprus’ treatment of asylum seekers and pushbacks were included in a number of significant human rights issues in the latest US Department of State report published on Tuesday, which included ...

Around 700 people – mostly African migrants and asylum seekers, along with some Cypriots and migrants from other countries – protested in the streets of Nicosia, calling for an end to oppressive measures ...

Hundreds of people took to the streets of Nicosia on Saturday in a peaceful demonstration for equal rights covering all migrants living in Cyprus. The protest at Eleftheria square was ...

By Robert Morgan A protest against racism and in support of migrant rights is being organised for Saturday at noon in Solomos Square, Nicosia. “Racial discrimination in Cyprus is becoming ...

Far-right Elam have put forward a draft proposal to halve the amount of time refugees have to file asylum applications or appeals in the court, which seems to be gaining ...

The government made the right move in suspending the examination of asylum applications of Syrian migrants for 21 months. Since the beginning of April more than 1,000 Syrian migrants have arrived by ...

Experts on Tuesday sounded the alarm over the government’s latest policy on suspending asylum seeker applications for Syrian nationals, while the interior ministry said it was ready to revoke ...

Two more migrant boats have been spotted on Monday by Cyprus’ port police, it emerged. Authorities said that one boat had 37 migrants on board and was seen off the coast ...

Syrian migrants arriving in Cyprus will from now on be taken to one of the migrant reception facilities to live, following a decision to cut all stipends given to them ...

A boat with 22 migrants on board was spotted on the police radar at 1pm on Sunday off the coast of Cape Greco. Officers from the marine and port police were ...

Due to the recent mass arrival of Syrian asylum seekers, and pending developments on the issue of the reassessment of Syria’s status and the designation of safe areas, Cyprus ...

A man has been arrested after appearing to be the pilot of a boat that brought a further 32 migrants to the island on Saturday, The boat arrived early on Saturday ...