Eleven missing unaccompanied migrant children have triggered the concern of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Cyprus, which urged local authorities to improve living conditions at the camps. In a
It would be no shock if Nicosia were secretly studying the UK plan for asylum seekers, sticking them on the plane and sending them 6,500 km away to Rwanda. Britain’s half-baked approach
Eleven unaccompanied migrant children have gone missing since arriving in Cyprus over the last three years, four of them in 2022, said the Deputy Ministry of Social Welfare. In a note to
Commissioner for Children’s Rights, Despo Michaelidou, has lashed out at authorities over “appalling” conditions under which unaccompanied migrant minors are living at the Pournara reception centre. The Commissioner has launched a probe
Russian forces neared Kyiv on Thursday, as international leaders and Ukraine accused Russia of a “barbaric” attack on a children’s hospital in the besieged city of Mariupol. As the violence continues, Russia
The number of children treated for COVID-19 at Nicosia’s specialist Makarios Hospital has doubled in the past fortnight, according to the director of its paediatric ward Dr Avraam Elia. In comments to
Primary and secondary schools reopened Monday with hundreds of children and teaching staff absent due to either contracting COVID-19 or being reported as a close contact. School students and teachers returned to
A record nine kids, mostly under five, are receiving treatment for COVID at the Makarios Children’s Hospital, the highest number of hospitalisations since the pandemic broke out. The Head of the hospital’s
Building on high demand from parents to get their children vaccinated against COVID-19, the Health Ministry has added extra vaccination centres for ages five to 11 on 3-4 January. It follows unexpected
The first 130 children aged between five and 11 got their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine on Friday as Cyprus buffers against a surge of COVID-19 and the arrival of Omicron.
