CALAIS, France, Aug 8 (UNHCR) - It's nearly midnight while Farad*, Yacine* and a dozen other refugees sit around a fire and drink tea in a makeshift shelter in the so-called jungle in Calais. They ...

They fled hardship and war only to find misery and squalor, but migrants who met a gruesome end in northern France hoping to reach England are finally getting a touch of dignity in death. More than 30 ...

French authorities are this morning moving over a thousand teenage migrants who remain in limbo on the site of the so-called ''Jungle" in Calais. The migrants, who are estimated to number about 1,500, ...

PARIS (Reuters) - French police dismantled a makeshift migrant camp in the northern port of Calais on Friday, removing hundreds of people in one of biggest operations of its kind in recent months.

The notorious "Jungle" migrant camp on the outskirts of the French port of Calais has for years been a key staging post for migrants trying to smuggle across the Channel to Britain on lorries or ...

CALAIS, France, Oct 24 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Deep in the Calais "Jungle" migrant camp in northern France, hundreds of Oromo Ethiopians set up their own school. An Irish volunteer came to ...

PARIS, Oct 31 (Reuters) - French riot police swooped on an illegal migrant camp in northeastern Paris just after dawn on Monday, sparking a brief standoff at a site where numbers have soared since the ...

In September I joined a group of social workers who had been volunteering in the Calais refugee camp. The group, Social Workers Without Borders, was set up by Lynn King, a social worker who wanted to ...