AgenciesUpdated: Saturday, June 29, 2019, 09:13 PM IST
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Migrants and refugees queue at a registration camp in the southern Serbian town of Presevo on September 11, 2015. A record 5,000 migrants have arrived at Serbia's border with Hungary over the past 24 hours, a television report said on September 10. Some 3,000 of them have already entered into Hungary, the state RTS television said. Most of the migrants are moving through Hungary on their way to Germany and other northern countries where they hope to win asylum. Some 50 buses transporting around 2,500 migrants as well as three trains with around 3,000 others left on September 9 to 10 overnight from Gevgelija, on the Macedonian side of its border with Greece towards Serbia, according to AFP journalists. The EU unveiled plans to take 160,000 refugees from overstretched border states, as the United States said it would accept more Syrians to ease the pressure from the worst migration crisis since World War II. AFP PHOTO / ARMEND NIMANI |
Medellin: The Venezuelan exodus may exceed eight million people by the end of next year, which would make it the largest migration crisis in the world, according to a special report issued by the Organisation of American States (OAS).
The group's projection puts the exodus between 7.5 million and 8.2 million in 2020, far surpassing the 6.7 million people who in eight years have fled Syria, Al Jazeera reported.
"It's not an economic or voluntary migration," said David Smolansky, an exiled Venezuelan politician who presented the final report with Harvard University economist Dany Bahar to the OAS assembly on Friday. "It's forced migration," he added.
The projections were previously released as part of the group's preliminary report in March, but on Friday OAS representatives, pointing to the report, appealed to the international community for more support in addressing the growing number of Venezuelan migrants and refugees.
