Turkish media say 11 migrants including three children crossing the Aegean Sea to Greece have drowned after their boat capsized, and seven others were rescued by the Turkish coast guard.
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Over the year, it said that the number of people crossing the Mediterranean increased steadily from around 5,500 in January to a monthly peak in October of over 221,000.
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More than one million migrants and refugees reached Europe this year, including over 970,000 who made the unsafe journey across the Mediterranean, the United Nations refugee agency said Tuesday.
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Though the European reaction was initially chaotic, with border crossings for people moving northwards from Greece proving to be particularly hard, the refugee agency indicated that a more coordinated response is beginning to take shape. “It’s necessary and it’s desirable”, he said, adding: “Migration must be legal, safe and secure for all – both for the migrants themselves and the countries that will become their new home”. Another 34,215 have crossed from Turkey into Bulgaria and Greece by land.
“If there were not a crisis of solidarity and leadership within the European Union, whereby others would follow the very important, courageous and visionary leadership of (German) Chancellor (Angela) Merkel and open their doors, then dispersed among 28 countries, it would have been much more manageable”. Half are migrants from Syria. Furio De Angelis, the UNHCR’s representative in Canada, said that Canada’s program for resettling Syrian refugees is a “model internationally”.
With more than 200 staffers in Syria, the IOM has helped more than 3.6 million people there with services including shelter, water and sanitation, an IOM spokesman said.
Nearly all those arriving came across the Mediterranean or the Aegean Seas, and half were Syrians fleeing the war. Another 29,959 have come through Bulgaria, almost 3,845 through Spain, 269 through Cyprus and 106 through Malta.
The top five nationalities arriving in Italy were Eritrean, Nigerian, Somalian, Sudanese, and Syrian, the IOM said, citing figures from the Italian Interior Ministry.
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This means that 400 more people lost their lives compared to previous year while reports indicate that the number of fatalities is continuing to rise as 20 new deaths in the eastern Mediterranean have been registered since December 18.
This, the agency said accounts for 80 per cent of those arriving irregularly in Europe by sea, while the number of those crossing from North Africa into Italy dropped slightly, from 170,000 in 2014 to around 150,000 in 2015.
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The report also noted Belgium’s struggle to manage migrant movements toward Britain, and said the country lacks national legislation to process alerts signaled by the passport-free area’s main database.
