© Photo: Refugees 4 Refugees MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Over 63,000 migrants and refugees reached Europe by crossing the Mediterranean Sea through 18 September this year, some 20 percent less than during the same period in 2018, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported on Friday. “IOM reports that 63,417 migrants and refugees have entered Europe…
Themes: Missing Migrants Geneva – The International Organization for Migration (IOM), the UN Migration Agency, reports that 8,956 migrants and refugees have entered Europe by sea through 27 February, a 12 per cent decrease from the 10,243 arriving during the same period last year. Deaths on the three main Mediterranean Sea routes through almost seven weeks of the new…
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UNITED NATIONS: The U.N. migration agency last month repatriated more than 450 Central American citizens, mostly men, who were in a caravan of U.S.-bound migrants, its spokesman has said. International Organization for Migration (IOM) spokesman Joel Millman said at least another 300 of the estimated 4,000 migrants and asylum-seekers who had arrived in the Mexican border city…
Geneva – IOM, the UN Migration Agency, reports that 103,347 migrants and refugees entered Europe by sea in 2018 through 14 November. Spain topped 50,440 – more irregular arrivals to Spain through 45 weeks of 2018 than all arrivals during the past three years combined (see chart below). This marks the fifth straight year arrivals of irregular migrants…
Geneva – IOM, the UN Migration Agency, reports that 95,909 migrants and refugees entered Europe by sea in 2018 through 24 October, with 45,976 to Spain, the leading destination this year. In fact, since late September’s arrivals were reported Spain in 2018 has now received via the Mediterranean more irregular migrants than it did throughout all…
A German official has warned that Berlin may impose fresh controls on the borders with France and Switzerland. With a surge in migrant arrivals to Spain, Germany is hoping to avoid a repeat of the 2015 migration crisis. German authorities are considering stronger controls along the French and Swiss borders, Helmut Teichmann, junior minister for migration…
Migrants stranded on a boat, thirty miles off the Libyan coast as they are rescued by Royal Marines, on 7 June 2015. Photo Rowan Griffith/Daily Mirror. According to the International Organization for Migration (IOM), as of 12 June 2015, an estimated 1,865 people had died crossing the Mediterranean to Europe and nearly 50,000 migrants had been rescued…
In a dramatic attack in the last minute of the match between Belgium and Japan at the World Cup, Nacer Chadli scored the winning goal for Belgium. Before that, Marouane Fellaini had scored the equalizing goal from Eden Hazard’s cross. With a thrilling 3-2 comeback victory, Belgium had reached the quarter-finals. Chadli, Fellaini and star…
Brussels (CNN) European Union leaders have averted the collapse of a key summit with a deal struck on migration in the early hours of Friday morning, which will see the burden of resettling refugees shared more widely among member states. The EU will also look into setting up migration centers in countries outside Europe, according to…