Refugee camp

Police in Greece say that an altercation among at least 10 Afghan migrants on the Greek island of Lesvos has left one person dead and three others injured.

A local police spokesman, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation, said that the cause of the clash wasn't immediately known.

An Afghan man will appear in court on the eastern Aegean island of Chios on Tuesday on charges of sexually abusing his 11-month-old baby.

According to reports, the man, who lived at the VIAL refugee camp, molested the baby during a visit to the apartment where his wife was staying with the infant.

Riots broke out last night at the Lesvos refugee-immigration reception and identification centre in Moria. According to police sources, the incident started at midnight and lasted until the morning. The UNHCR premises for refugees sustained damage, as did an area that belonged to an NGO. A public prosecutor accompanied by a strong police force intervened to defuse the situation.

Number of Migrants who have sought protection from the Bulgarian state has fallen five times since the end of October last year, the chairman of the State Agency for Refugees Petya Parvanov told BNT on Monday.

Dozens of asylum seekers are gathering in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki following a call through social media for a march to Greece's northern border with Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) to protest their inability to move to other European countries.

Opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis has voiced his concern over the sharp increase in the number of migrants landing on Greece's Aegean islands from Turkey.

Greece must speed up winter preparations at refugee camps on islands in the Aegean Sea where there has been a sharp rise in arrivals, the United Nations refugee agency said on Friday.

Nearly 5,000 refugees, mostly Syrian or Iraqi families, crossed from Turkey in September - a quarter of all arrivals this year, UNHCR data shows.

The U.N. World Food Programme is cutting food rations by 30 percent for more than 400,000 refugees living in camps in Kenya due to insufficient funding, it said on Monday, quoted by Reuters. 

Dadaab and Kakuma camps in Kenya are primarily home to refugees from neighboring Somalia and South Sudan, both ravaged by wars that have forced millions of people to flee.

The online version of British newspaper Guardian publishes a piece titled “Surge in migration to Greece fuels misery in refugee camps” highlighting the increasing plight refugees and immigrants face in the Greek hotspots and registration centres as the numbers of people entering Greece rises. From the Guardian:

 French authorities evacuated hundreds of migrants from a wood on the northern coast near Calais on Tuesday over fears it could become a magnet for others hoping to head to Britain, The Local reported.