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Cameroonian woman’s plea to Australian PM

Cameroonian woman’s plea to Australian PM

A woman approached Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison in tears on Tuesday after he held a news conference in Queensland, as she made an emotional plea for him to help her family in Cameroon and asylum-seekers from Africa. The incident was caught on camera after Morrison had just finished a news conference in the city of Rockhampton, where he fielded questions about his travel ban on Australian citizens returning from COVID-ravaged India. Morrison, whose government has a hardline immigration policy, listened to the woman and told her that government officials would help her as he crouched down and held her…
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About 9,000 migrants on Greece’s Lesbos move into tent camp after fire

About 9,000 migrants on Greece’s Lesbos move into tent camp after fire

THOUSANDS of asylum-seekers have moved into a new temporary facility on the Greek island of Lesbos, government officials said on Saturday, 10 days after a fire destroyed the Moria camp. The fire that broke out in Moria on September 9 left over 12,000 people, most of them refugees from Afghanistan, Syria and various African countries, without shelter, proper sanitation or access to food and water. No one was hurt in the blaze. About 9,000 people had been resettled in the new tent camp, set up by authorities at Kara Tepe near the port of Mytilene, by Saturday morning. A few…
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