BOGOTA — Some 19,000 migrants, mainly Haitians, are
amassed on the north coast of
Colombia, from where they hope to cross to
Panama and find a route to the US, an official in Bogota said Wednesday.
اضافة اعلان
A mission of "evaluating the migrant crisis"
concluded there were nearly 19,000 migrants stuck in the coastal town of
Necocli in northwestern Antioquia department, Colombia's ombudsman Carlos
Camargo said on Twitter, adding they were "mostly Haitians."
Some had been there for weeks.
A steady influx of migrants from Colombia northward via
Panama dried up in 2020 due to coronavirus travel restrictions and resultant
border closures.
But there have been several thousand new arrivals at Necocli in
recent weeks.
From Necocli, migrants cross the Gulf of Uraba by boat to
the Colombian village of Acandi, which borders Panama.
From there they start, on foot, the dangerous trek across
mountain and jungle, facing snakes, steep ravines, tropical downpours and
criminals often linked to drug trafficking.
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