Macedonia lets more refugees in after taxi protest ends

Four times more deaths in the Mediterranean in January 2016 and thirteen times more arrivals in Greece and Italy have been recorded compared to the same month of 2015, the latest data of the worldwide Organisation for Migration (IOM) shows.

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The migrants, many of them refugees from the Syrian war, chanted “Macedonia, Macedonia” and sat down in the road.

The European Commission formalized a set of confidential recommendations for the Greek government in a bid to improve the registration of asylum seekers, saying Greece is in breach of an agreement on passport-free travel in the so-called Schengen zone of 26 countries. Then, with patience running out, hundreds of migrants disembarked from their stationary buses and blocked the road, sitting on the tarmac and chanting “Macedonia, Macedonia!”

“What we see in some cases that they get left behind in countries where they are temporarily detained or delayed”.

The bodies of nine migrants, including two babies, were still missing Tuesday by the Turkish coast guard after their boat sank.

It added that two others were rescued after their boat sank in high seas off the village of Doganbey, which lies to the south of Izmir. A spokesperson from IOM said war in Syria was only one among many causes, including Ebola and Boko Haram in West Africa, an natural disaster in Nepal, conflicts in Libya, Yemen, South Sudan, Central African Republic and Afghanistan and Iraq.

It’s a sharp rise from as recently as six months ago, the United Nations agency said, when 73 percent of the migration flow was male, and only one in 10 migrants was an accompanied child.

Millman told reporters Tuesday in Geneva that the proportion of unaccompanied minors has “grown enormously”.

Large numbers of minors have also arrived in Europe unaccompanied, leaving them vulnerable to trafficking.

Officials could not immediately be reached for confirmation.

And if they survive the journey, there are other risks on land, particularly for children.