In September, a total of 1,626 third-country nationals were detained in Bulgaria, according to statistics from the Ministry of Interior. Of these, 154 people were detained at the entrance to the state border, 128 at the exit without registration, and 1344 were found to be staying illegally in the interior Read more…
The new Taliban government in Afghanistan has warned that if sanctions against the country remain in place, there could be a flow of economic refugees, AFP reported. Foreign Minister Amir Khan Mutaki told Western diplomats during their recent Doha meetings that “the weakening of the Afghan government is in no Read more…
Some of the refugees fleeing the Taliban’s brutality in Afghanistan��are taking an arduous route across neighboring Iran to try and cross into Turkey. We met a family in the Turkish border city of Van who made it out of Afghanistan the night before the capital fell to the Taliban. “I don’t have money, Read more…
Several hundred Bulgarian military service personnel will help guard the Bulgarian border to prevent illegal entry into Bulgarian territory, caretaker Defence Minister Georgi Panayotov said on August 26, the ministry said in a statement. After an August 25 co-ordination meeting in Elhovo with the Ministry of Interior, it was confirmed Read more…