Humanitarian crisis in northwest Colombia due to mass migration
More than 2,500 crossing Darien Gap every day, says human rights official
by Adriaan Alsema October 13, 2022
Local authorities in northwest Colombia said that mass migration to Central America has caused a humanitarian crisis on border with Panama.
According to the ombudsman of Necocli, his town in the Uraba region has not been able to deal with a growing number of migrants trying to travel to Central America.
Necocli ombudsman Wilfredo Menco told local media that the mass migration has become untenable in his town, which officially has 70,000 inhabitants.
According to Menco, some 2,500 migrants cross the Gulf of Uraba to the jungles of the so-called Darien Gap on the Panamanian border every day.
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https://colombiareports.com/humanitarian-crisis-in-northwest-colombia-due-to-mass-migration/