For the first time since 2019 The Mediterranean route It is not the most lethal in the world, despite registering 2,452 deaths last year, if not Asian routes with 2,778 migrants who lost their livesespecially among the flow of Afghans fleeing the neighbor Iran. Also at the point of view Africa (with the Canarian route among the most dangerous), those of the Caribbean and the passage of the Darién between Colombia and Panama.
“In the pass of Darién they pointed me with a high caliber weapon”
“We do not do this for pleasure, we do it out of necessity,” “they pointed me with a high caliber weapon,” Eva Maria is excited when she crossed the passage of Darién. “You want to cry so much crossing the river, I did it up to 300 times and slept with wet feet”laments Camilo (another migrant stranded between Colombia and Panama).
“It’s an unacceptable and preventable tragedy”according to the International Organization for Migration (IIM), which speaks of 8,938 deaths or missing in 2024, 2.1% more than in 2023 and the highest figure since there are records (since 2024).
The IOM report, which confirms the fifth consecutive annual increase in this type of circumstances, recalls that “behind each number there is a human being” and that “each loss is devastating.”
The Deputy Director General for OIM operations, Ugochi Daniels, has made a call to achieve a “coordinated response” globally and contain this upward trend of the mortality of migratory routes. Daniels insists that The only solution to this scourge is to encourage legal and safe migratory routes.
