OBBO: Progress fuelling deadly journey to Europe...
Spanish SAR plane patrols as refugees wait to get on onboard the rescue vessel Golfo Azzurro by members of the Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms, after being rescued from a wooden boat sailing out of control in the Mediterranean Sea near Libya on June 15, 2017. PHOTO | ANADOLU
The UNDP just released a fascinating report titled Scaling Fences: Voices of Irregular African Migrants to Europe.
The report draws on the largest survey of its kind. “Almost 2,000 people from 39 African countries in 13 European nations were interviewed, all of whom had arrived in Europe through irregular means and not for asylum or protection-related reasons,” the UNDP boasted.