European Migrant Crisis: West African Route Crossings Surge to Record High

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The European Union’s Frontex border control agency said this week that illegal migrant crossings of the West African route to Spain’s Canary Islands reached a record high this year.

The European Union’s border control agency said that the majority of illegal arrivals on the Spanish-owned islands came from the African nations of Mali, Senegal, and Mauritania, the EU-funded InfoMigrants website The scale of arrivals has overwhelmed Cyprus to such an extent, that Nicosia announced last week that it would be suspend considering asylum applications from Syrian migrants.The previous top migrant passageway, the Central Mediterranean route from Northern Africa to Italy and Greece, saw a steep decline, falling to around 11,400 crossings compared to more than double that during the same period last year.

However, despite the reduction in crossings, the Mediterranean is still seeing a high number of deaths, with at least 476 people reported missing in the first three months of the year,to the UN migration agency, IOM. The actual number of deaths is likely much higher, however, given that many missing migrants go unreported.

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