Aftermath of war

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov called on world leaders to sit together and come up with a solution to the refugee crisis.

Borisov insisted that urgent measures should be taken to address the source of the refugee wave, namely the destabilised states in Africa and the Arab world.

According to him, this was not in the capacity of Bulgaria to deal with.

Between two border hells, Serbia is telling refugees - good morning and enjoy your meal.

The desire of the host was to gather everyone at the makeshift table, but breakfast for refugees did not look like that.

The help the UN refugee agency collects for the Serbian Government in light of a surge of refugees arriving in the country reached EUR 1 million on Friday.

This was announced by UNHCR, according to Tanjug.

Central Athens’ Victoria Square was again turned into a makeshift migrants’ camp overnight on Thursday, as dozens of third country nationals, including women and children, filled the open site. Most of the people described themselves as Syrian refugees, although there were several groups of young Afghan, Iraqi and even Pakistani men.

Ahead of the Western Balkans Summit in Vienna, the European Commission on Wednesday said it was releasing an additional 1.5 million euro in humanitarian funding to assist refugees and migrants in Serbia and Macedonia.

The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday it has established a child-friendly space with a mobile team near the Macedonian town of Geveglija to provide support to migrant women and children transiting the country.

It is hard to predict how the situation with migrants will develop in the Balkans and Serbia, says head of the UNHCR office in Serbia Hans Friedrich Schodder.

However he noted that the issue of an increasing number of refugees arriving in Serbia from the Middle East should not be qualified as a crisis, but that a crisis should be prevented.

The United States expects to accept between 5,000 and 8,000 Syrian refugees in 2016, officials said Aug. 24.

The new camp was established in the village of Miratovac, near the southern Serbian town of Presevo, where a collective reception centre for migrants was opened in the reconstructed building of a tobacco processing company on July 8.

Macedonia on Sunday assisted thousands of migrants to resume their journeys through the country and into Serbia after the authorities tried to seal their southern border last Thursday and declared a crisis situation, which resulted in chaotic scenes and clashes with police.