#migrants

Migrant arrivals from Syria have doubled in the last couple of months following the outbreak of war in Gaza, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Monday. This has meant that ...

A total of 151 migrants arrived in Cyprus late Friday and into the early hours of Saturday on three vessels, authorities said. According to CNA, two boats were spotted Friday afternoon ...

More than two dozen remand and deportation orders were issued on Wednesday, following the arrests of migrants in a fight at Pournara reception centre two days ago. Police said that ...

Interior minister vows to get tough after fight at Pournara sees 33 arrests Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou got tough on Tuesday, warning migrants that had caused trouble the previous night they ...

Justice Minister Anna Procopiou called for the assistance of EU border agency Frontex on Tuesday for all procedures surrounding the management of migratory flows. Addressing the Economist’s Annual Cyprus ...

Over 30 people were arrested at Pournara reception centre and two were injured from fighting that broke out on Monday night, police said on Tuesday morning. According to reports, groups of ...

Fighting broke out at Pournara migrant reception centre on Monday afternoon in Kokkinotrimithia, reports said. According to a report on Ant1 news station, the fighting broke out between Africans and ...

The court hearing for the 13 men on trial in connection to the racist riots in Limassol in September was postponed again on Monday and will resume on November 22. A number ...

More than 500 migrants were rescued in the Atlantic Ocean off Spain’s Canary Islands, the Spanish coastguard said on Saturday, as the number of people arriving on the archipelago so ...

A 56-year-old man found guilty of assisting third country nationals to enter the Republic illegally was sentenced to 24 months in jail on Thursday. Famagusta district court also found the man ...

Personnel at Pournara migrant reception centre will be increased to accelerate the asylum application processing time, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Monday. In a statement issued after a meeting ...

Cyprus has reached out to the EU for help including requesting items such as tents, after 194 migrants arrived to the island’s shores, it emerged on Sunday. The interior ministry ...

Ten men arrested on suspicion of a people smuggling ring were released on Wednesday after Paphos district court rejected a police remand request. They had been arrested on Monday as ...

Scores of riot police officers surrounded Limassol criminal court on Wednesday, as 13 suspects linked to the racist violence against migrants last month arrived for their hearings. The date of the ...

Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou on Tuesday warned developments in Israel and Gaza could impact Lebanon’s ability to monitor its shores, raising the risk for an increased influx of migrants ...

Ten people were arrested on Monday as the result of a coordinated operation into a people smuggling network facilitating the illegal entry of migrants into Cyprus. The wide-scale operation, involving ...

Paphos court is to announce sentence against the 47-year-old Syrian man who threatened to “turn Paphos upside down” in relation to the Chlorakas incidents during the summer on October 30. The 47...

Migrants living in a condemned apartment building without electricity or water has been cleared after the Paphos mayor intervened and expressed his outrage over the situation. “It’s situations such ...

At least seven people were killed and more than a dozen others injured when a suspected human smuggler lost control of a van carrying migrants, German police said on Friday. ...

As the number of voluntary returns of failed asylum seekers continues to rise, the interior ministry on Friday told the Cyprus Mail the country that has seen the most is ...

Lakatamia should be consulted before a potential decision is made by the government to house migrants at a former school within its municipal boundaries, its mayor said on Tuesday. Fotoula ...

Faster processing times of asylum applications have received a boost with the recruitment of 25 additional examiners, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Monday. “The recruitment of new staff is a ...

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has written to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz telling him she learned with “astonishment” of a German government initiative to finance migrant charity groups operating in ...

Immigrants who maintain close links with Turkey are reportedly on a list of monitored foreign nationals confirmed by police, it emerged on Monday. Police confirmed reports on Sunday that security ...