GENEVA — At least 63,285 individuals have perished or disappeared on migration routes all over the world between 2014 and 2023, with most deaths attributable to drowning, the UN migration company stated on Tuesday.
A report printed by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on its Missing Migrants Project confirmed that almost all of deaths and disappearances—28,854—occurred within the Mediterranean, adopted by Africa and Asia.
Nearly 60% of deaths documented had been linked to drowning, and multiple third of these recognized had been from nations in battle, together with Afghanistan, Myanmar, Syria and Ethiopia.
IOM’s knowledge confirmed that the deadliest yr for migrants within the final decade was 2023, when it recorded 8,541 deaths partially because of a pointy improve of fatalities within the Mediterranean.
“The increase in deaths is likely linked to the increase in departures and, correspondingly, shipwrecks, off the coast of Tunisia,” the report stated, including that a minimum of 729 individuals died off the Tunisian coast in 2023, in comparison with 462 in 2022.
“In all prior years, most deaths in the Central Mediterranean were documented off the coast of Libya.”
With anti-immigration events steadily gaining affect throughout Europe for years, governments have tried to curb migration flows to their nations by pledging funds to nations throughout the Mediterranean corresponding to Tunisia and Egypt.
Earlier this month, the EU pledged a €7.4-billion ($8-billion) funding bundle to Egypt that Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni described as “the best way to address migratory flows.”
The governments of a number of European nations, together with Italy, Hungary and Britain, have made curbing immigration a prime precedence, whereas elsewhere far-right events like France’s National Rally, led by Marine Le Pen, have gained reputation.
Religious leaders are amongst those that have known as for better compassion in direction of migrants. Pope Francis has known as for a pan-European response to migration to cease the Mediterranean from turning into “a sea of death.” — Reuters
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