Cyprus: the tent in no man’s land
07 December 2021 |
6:30 am
A young couple from Cameroon has been stuck on the narrow border strip of the island of Cyprus for months. Their destination was the EU, but Cyprus wants to prevent any new escape route from forming and refuses to bend.
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