Every year, many of the hundreds of thousands of refugees and migrants from sub-Saharan Africa seeking asylum or jobs in Europe are 'at great risk of harm and death' because few protection services are available to help them on their perilous journey, according to a report issued by the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, Tuesday.
On 3 October, MSF carried out a rescue with an Irish ship. People had been in the water for quite a while by the time we arrived, and some had swallowed fuel and seawater.
The report highlights the horrors faced by refugees and migrants who risk their lives moving on dangerous routes stretching from the East and Horn of Africa and West Africa towards North Africa's Atlantic coast, and across the Central Mediterranean Sea to Europe. "In many countries, the services that were there in 2022-2023 are no longer there. This is the case, in particular, in Morocco, in Mauritania, in Sudan because of the conflict, in the northern part of Niger, in the southern part of Algeria. So, basically these are in key hubs, key crossing routes that are used by migrants and refugees," he said.
"In the past, la gendarmerie nationale in Agadez, Niger, would pick up people who had been stranded or abandoned by smugglers and traffickers in the desert. But such rescue missions," he said,"no longer occur along that route."There was a problem processing your submission. Please try again later.
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