Greece

The Historic Greek football club Panionios announced on Tuesday that a refugee from the West African nation of Guinea signed a contract to play with the team in late October. Twenty-two-year-old Alia Camara came to Greece on a boat from...

Greek authorities announced the arrests of five young migrants in relation to the series of fires that razed the refugee camp Moria to the ground last week. Another man has been identified and authorities are in the process of locating...

Greek authorities are struggling to find a solution for the thousands of migrants and refugees who remain homeless after the Moria camp at Lesvos -- the largest in Greece --was almost totally destroyed by this week's fires. As thousands slept...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced on Thursday the launch of a German-French initiative for the reception of unaccompanied refugee minors who had lived at the Moria camp prior to the devastating fires that destroyed it. As thousands of asylum seekers...

Photographer Thanasis Voulgarakis captured the extent of the damage and human misery inflicted on thousands of refugees and migrants at the Moria camp at Lesvos, which was almost destroyed by fire early on Wednesday. People, including women with babies, children,...

  According to local Greek media reports, Greece's Alternate Migration Minister Giorgos Koumoutsakos, accompanied by Armin Laschet, the state premier of Germany's West Rhine-Westphalia region, was stopped from entering the Moria refugee camp on Tuesday due to unrest at the facility. The German...

Dozens of migrants and refugees on Wednesday staged a sit-in outside the notorious Greek camp of Moria, on Lesvos island, demanding to be transferred to the mainland and claiming that they have been exposed to the coronavirus. The protesters, who,...

A 16-year-old Afghan teenager was stabbed and killed early Wednesday morning by a 20-year-old Afghan man a short distance from the north gate of the Moria Reception and Identification Centre (RIC) on the Greek island of Lesvos. The 16-year-old was...

Greek riot police clashed with angry migrants at the Moria Reception Center on Lesvos on Sunday after one woman died in a fire at the infamous camp. A child which was initially thought to have been also killed, is injured...

The number of migrants and refugees at the Moria reception and hospitality center on Lesvos has dropped below 6,000, according to new figures by the Ministry of Migration Policy released on Thursday. Specifically, out of 7,850 asylum seekers currently on...

The offices of Moria refugee processing center on Lesvos suffered extensive damage on Sunday night, as a result of migrants rioting. According to reports, the migrants had been complaining about overcrowding at the centre, and their complaints turned to anger as...

Authorities reported on Friday that coast guards on the Greek island of Lesvos apprehended a municipal employee and his partner early Thursday under the allegations that they were selling drugs to migrants at the Moria refugee camp. The two individuals...

A 46-year old refugee from Syria was found dead in his tent in the refugee camp of Moria on Lesvos. A few days ago a 22-year old Egyptian was also found dead in his tent in the same camp. A...

Despite statements by Greek Migration Policy Minister Yiannis Mouzalas on Thursday, there are still migrants living in outdoor tents in the snow with no heating on the island of Lesvos according to sources in contact with Greek Reporter. Just two...

Refugees and migrants waiting to be registered by authorities inside the camp in Moria, Lesvos, celebrated what they believed to be news that Greece’s borders will open at the end of the year and they will be allowed to...