Thousands of US-bound migrants stranded in Colombia
Issued on: 28/07/2021 - 09:08
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Bogota (AFP)
Thousands of migrants are stranded in a Colombian port town as they wait for boats to cross into neighboring Panama on their way to the United States, a state relief agency said.
The Gulf of Uraba, on Colombia's northern coast, is one of the main transit points for refugees from nearby Latin American nations as well as Africa, and Asia, trying to cross into Panama through a jungle corridor known as the Darien Gap.
The United States is usually their final destination.
But the number of migrants arriving in the municipality of Necocli has swelled in recent weeks and a local shipping company that transports people across the gulf into Panama's southern jungle is unable to keep up, the municipal disaster management agency said Tuesday.
In the absence of land crossings to the border, "the company takes around 700 to 750 (migrants) but at night 1,000, 1,100, 1,200 more arrive," head of the disaster management unit, Cesar Zuniga, told AFP.
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