Macedonian soldiers fired warning shots at Macedonia-Greece border
Macedonian soldiers have fired several warning shots in the air at the country's border with Greece to deter a group of migrants from crossing it illegally. According to local media, one migrant was arrested and turned over to the police, while others returned to the territory of Greece. The Macedonian Army said in a press release that the incident happened when one of its patrols detected a group of migrants illegally crossing the border near the regional road Gevgelija-Moin. According to this, the patrol vocally warned …
New highway section Demir Kapija – Smokvica opens
New highway section Demir Kapija – Smokvica, which is part of the Pan-European Corridor X, will be officially opened Monday. The highway section is 28km long and total cost is estimated at €270 million of which €107 are provided by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), €130 million from European Investment Bank, €45 million are EU grant and €6 million are funds from budget of the Republic of Macedonia. The highway includes two interchanges, including one at Miravci and one at Smokvica, two twin-tube tunnels,…
Mallory Joins KK Blokotehna Gevgelija Squad In Macedonia
Michael Mallory, the all-time leading scorer in the history of both the Southern Connecticut State University men's basketball program and the Northeast-10 Conference, has signed a professional contract with KK Blokotehna Gevgelija in Macedonia. He made his debut earlier this week and scored 10 points in his professional debut. Mallory, who finished his career with 2,515 points, holds 11 individual school records and was also a part of the winningest class in program history. He earned All-America honors as a junior and senior, in…
Opening of 16th Gevgelija art Colony
The 16th international Gevgelija art colony opens on Monday, with 10 artists from Macedonia, Serbia and Bulgaria. The Apolonia Foundation, which organizes the event says that the pictures will be inspired by Gevgelija and its surroundings. "A novelty is that the artists will work for three days in the mountainous village of Huma, where the they will help restore the iconostasis on of St. Panteleimon church", said Ace Ristovski from the Apolonia Foundation. Macedonian participants will include Dragi Hadzi Nikolov and Jord…
Another Czech police team goes to help protect Macedonian border
Another police team left the Czech Republic yesterday to help protect the Macedonian border near the town of Gevgelija in the next weeks, Police Presidium spokeswoman Ivana Nguyenova told CTK, adding that this is the ninth police mission of its kind. The team will stay in Macedonia until May 9. Prague has sent a total of 294 police officers within the rotating missions so far, Nguyenova said. "The officers will mainly perform preventive activities, i.e. checks of people and supervision of the public peace, in Gevgelia, a …
Main border crossing with Greece remains closed
Macedonia’s main border crossing with Greece, near Gevgelija, remains closed for all vehicles, due to a strike by Greek farmers. The Bogorodica – Evzoni crossing has been closed for three weeks now. Motorists can use the Dojran crossing to the east of Gevgelija, or the Bitola crossing, farther to the west. Other border crossings are operating normally.
Series of Earthquakes Shook Southern Parts of Macedonia - Epicenter in Northgreece
At about 2:44 am on Saturday morning in the southern parts of the country earthquake was felt measuring 3 degrees on the Richter scale with an epicenter in Greece. Natural Sciences and Mathematics in Skopje said that the intensity of the earthquake on the territory of Macedonia was between three and five degrees on the European Macroseismic scale. This is the second earthquake in the past 12 hours with epicenter in Greece which was felt in southeastern Macedonia. The first was registered on Friday at 00:12 am with a magnitude of 5.1 …
Gevgelija high school film-makers win award in New York with portrayal of refugee drama
“Borders”, a film shot by six high school students from Gevgelija during the height of the 2015-2016 migrant crisis, won two awards at the Plural+ international youth film festival in New York. The film won the awards for a Balkan film and the Scalabrini award, in the category of youth film-makers between 13 and 17 years of age. Made in English, he film covers the problems of children that were caught up in the unprecedented migrant wave. “Gevgelija was flooded by refugees and we witnessed dramatic scenes each day. The children – re…
UN rights chief slams Macedonia for migrant detentions
The UN rights chief on Friday voiced deep concern over Macedonia's "systematic policy" of detaining and expelling migrants, criticising especially the widespread detention of migrant children. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said that when his staff visited Macedonia earlier this month they had found 180 migrants -- around 80 of them children -- "who have been living in limbo since March in two transit centres". "This is simply unacceptable, in particular when it comes t…
Syrian refugees claim Greek mafia asks for EUR 200-300 to transfer them though the border
Syrian and Iraqi refugees claim that the Greek mafia asks them to pay EUR 200-300 to transfer them through the border close to the village of Moin, Macedonian Dnevnik daily writes. The newspaper quotes Iranian woman Bahar Mirat, who was sent to the camp in Gevgelija after the mass entrance into Macedonia through Moin. She added that if she was not allowed to stay in Macedonia and was returned to Greece, she would try to cross the border illegally again. Dnevnik recalls that the mother of the two sisters, who drowned in the Suva Reka Riv…
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