Tag Archives: Albania

“You see those white pinkish dots in front of us?” asked Xhemal Xherri, peering across a lagoon along the southern coast of Albania, across the Adriatic Sea from Italy. “Dalmatian pelicans,” said Xherri. “Around 20 of them.” The area is a vital breeding and feeding ground for southeastern Europe’s distinctive …

The cement floors are painted green because the colour is soothing, an Italian official explains, as he ushers a small group of journalists, including from CBC News, around the first extraterritorial migrant camp in Albania. The bleak steel and concrete structure, erected in a defunct airbase on rocky terrain near …