caption: Migrants play with a ball inside Pournara migrant reception center in Kokkinotrimithia outside the capital Nicosia, Cyprus, on Thursday, Nov. 25, 2021. Cyprus is asking the European Union for immediate help to deal with a continuous influx of migrants from the breakaway Turkish Cypriot north of the ethnically split island nation as officials say Pournara is currently hosting twice its 1,200 capacity with the overwhelming majority of migrants coming from African nations.