Showing posts with label refugee camp. Show all posts
Showing posts with label refugee camp. Show all posts

Monday, December 14, 2015

How Calais' 'jungle' migrant camp has now become a mini city - complete with restaurants, a theatre, book shops and free wifi

  • More than a dozen shops have opened, along with restaurants, libraries, an information centre and makeshift hotels
  • Main strip is the Market where an art gallery, theatre and Eritrean nightclub - which serves beer - are situated
  • Camp started as a stopping place for migrants as they waited to be smuggled illegally out of France to Britain
  • For more of the latest news from the Calais refugee camp visit www.dailymail.co.uk/refugeecrisis

By JOSH WHITE IN CALAIS FOR THE DAILY MAIL
PUBLISHED: 23:28 GMT, 6 December 2015 | UPDATED: 14:43 GMT, 7 December 2015

Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Now Greek island of Lesbos suffers migrant influx: Second popular British tourist spot begins to overflow with illegal immigrants with 300 arriving each day

  • An average of 300 migrants are arriving every day at another popular British tourist spot, the Greek island Lesbos
  • It comes after dozens more Sryian migrants floated into Kos after 5km overnight voyage from Turkey last night
  • An estimated 1,500 people have arrived on the shores of Kos in past week and most of them are now sleeping rough
  • Makeshift refugee camp has been established but Greek authorities struggling to cope with number of needy people

By JACK CRONE and SAM TONKIN FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 11:00 GMT, 2 June 2015 | UPDATED: 21:38 GMT, 2 June 2015