Refugee camp

A batch of new arrivals over the weekend pushed the population at the already overcrowded Moria refugee camp on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos close to the 7,500 mark, after it had managed to ease down to 6,872 late last week - meager respite at a facility built for a maximum of 3,000 people.

Greek authorities say six people were injured and four others were arrested following an overnight fight in a refugee camp near the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki.

The elephants were stressed because the refugee camp blocked one of the routes that the animals have been using for centuries.

Twelve refugees were killed after frightened elephants ran over one of the largest refugee camps in the world, the BBC reported.

The animals destroyed many of the homes in a Bangkish camp in Bangladesh.

A growing number of Syrian refugees in Germany are seeking to return to Turkey as a new German legislation has introduced new barriers to family reunification, local media reported on April 12.

Volunteer doctors in Turkey treated 2,500 Syrians living in refugee camps in Aleppo on April 7 and 8, an association official said on April 9.

A 26-year old Syrian man set himself on fire at a refugee camp on the island of Lesvos on Thursday, in one of the most serious incidents involving stranded migrants in many months.

As Turkey’s military and allied Syrian rebel forces continue to push into the city center of Afrin in northwestern Syria, Turkey’s disaster agency is readying refugee camps and humanitarian aid for a possible refugee influx.

The Health Ministry has sent a circular to regional authorities across the country asking them to initiate their annual mosquito control programs, calling for particular attention to be paid in areas where there have been outbreaks of malaria and West Nile virus in previous years.

A 5-year-old refugee boy died on Friday after he was run over by a car on the road linking Mytilene, the capital of the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos, to the town of Mantamado.

The accident occurred outside the refugee camp at Kara Tepe, where the child was staying with his nine-member family.

Residents of Chios continue to resist the Migration Policy Ministry's efforts to install more prefabricated huts at the Vial hotspot on the island, as the two sides debate the issue of financial compensation.