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UN: More than 2,000 people lost at sea

2023-08-11 20:06:00, Kosova & Bota CNA
UN: More than 2,000 people lost at sea
People on a boat that left Tunisia were rescued near Lampedusa, Italy, this month

The number of people taking the world's deadliest migration route - through the central Mediterranean - to reach the EU has doubled, pushing irregular crossings at the bloc's external borders to their highest level in seven years.

As migration returns to the top of Europe's political agenda, including Britain, Europe's border and coastguard agency said on Friday that irregular arrivals had risen by 13% between January and July to 176,100, the highest number for the period since 2016.

Frontex said the increase was driven entirely by a 115% increase in the number of people using the "Central Mediterranean" route, which is now the main migration route into the EU and accounts for more than half of all EU border detections. of.

However, many do not succeed. According to data from the UN's International Organization for Migration, so far in 2023 more than 2,090 people have disappeared in the Mediterranean, mainly on the central route, writes The Guardian .

The route, from Libya or Tunisia to northern Greece or Italy, can take several days, is often made by impassable, dangerously overcrowded boats and was successfully used by more than 89,000 people in the first seven months of 2023 , said Frontex.

While the number of people trying to reach Europe remains well below the peak of 2015-2016, the number is rising sharply and anti-immigration sentiment and political pressure are on the rise across the continent, including in Britain./ CNA





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