The number of deaths recorded in 2022 on migration routes inside and from the Middle East and North Africa region was the highest since 2017, according to newly released data from a United Nations agency.
The Missing Migrants Project, under the umbrella of the U.N.’s International Organization for Migration , recorded 3,789 deaths last year in the region.
More than half the Mediterranean’s victims, 1,330 people, were “roughly identified.” Two-thirds hailed from Africa and about a quarter originated from Arab states in the Middle East, the report said. The apex of such deaths came in 2015 and 2016, when Europe was flooded with migrants from much of the MENA region, especially from war-torn Syria. More than 4,000Bodies regularly washed up on Turkish shores at the time. They were buried in “kimsesiz” cemeteries — a Turkish term meaning “people without an ID,” which also translates to “people without people.”
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