Panama sees massive jump of unlawful migration in 2021
Panama City, PanamaReuters A record wave of unauthorized migrants entered Panama this year from Colombia, according to government data provided to Reuters on Thursday, as a surge of mostly Haitians entered the Central American country in route to the United States. Through mid-December, 126,675 unlawful migrants had entered Panama after crossing the Darien Gap, a […]
Panama searches mass graves for victims of 1989 US invasion
Panama City, PanamaReuters Several bags with human remains have been exhumed from a mass grave in Panama amid searches for the victims of the US invasion of Panama in 1989, officials said this week. The military operation took the lives of some 300 civilians and marked the end of the dictatorship of General Manuel Noriega. […]
US-bound, 19,000 migrant children cross dangerous jungle – UNICEF
Panama City, PanamaReuters On their trek north towards the United States, some 19,000 migrant children have crossed the dangerous jungles that sprawl the border between Panama and Colombia so far this year, the United Nations children’s agency UNICEF said Monday. The number of children who crossed the Darien Gap is almost three times higher than […]
Thousands of mostly Haitian migrants traverse Panama on way to United States
Panama CityReuters Up to 4,000 migrants, most of them Haitians, have passed through the treacherous jungles of the Darien Gap in Panama on the Colombian border as they make their way north to the United States, two Panamanian government sources said. An impromptu camp arose in recent weeks on the US-Mexican border that included Haitians, […]
UNICEF calls for schools to reopen in pandemic-hit nations
Manila, The PhilippinesReuters The United Nations children’s agency UNICEF has urged education authorities to reopen schools as soon as possible in countries where millions of students are still not allowed to return to classrooms 18 months into the COVID-19 pandemic. Schools in around 17 countries remain fully closed, while those in 39 countries remain partially […]
Panama, Colombia reach deal to manage migration over shared border
Panama City, PanamaReuters Panama and Colombia agreed on Wednesday to receive up to 650 migrants each day, amid a humanitarian crisis at their shared border, where thousands of migrants are stranded in northern Colombia, waiting to continue north toward the United States. Thousands of migrants – most of them Haitian but also from Cuba and […]
Rush to house record number of Venezuelan refugees as rainy season looms in Brazil’s north
Thomson Reuters Foundation Brazilian authorities and aid groups are rushing to help tens of thousands of Venezuelan refugees before the start of the rainy season in northern Roraima state this month, even as government leaders clash over a request to close the border. On Friday, a UN-backed centre opened in Boa Vista, the capital of […]
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