The variety of migrants and asylum seekers that arrived in Cyprus in January 2022 grew, in line with the primary estimates revealed by FRONTEX, the company chargeable for the EU’s exterior borders.
FRONTEX notes that in the primary month of 2022 in Cyprus, there have been 850 detections, 48% greater than final 12 months.
Probably the most represented nationalities had been nationals of the Democratic Republic of Congo (Congo-Kinshasa), Syria and Nigeria.
Relating to the state of affairs on the Japanese Mediterranean route usually (primarily regarding the state of affairs on the Greece – Turkey border), FRONTEX discovered that there have been no vital adjustments. The variety of detections rose 28% to 1163 in comparison with January 2021 when the variety of detections was 911, amongst which 303 at Greece’s exterior borders.
Probably the most vital improve in January 2022 might be noticed on the Western Balkans route with 5,826 arrivals, 148% greater than a 12 months in the past. Syria, Afghanistan and Turkey had been the highest three nations of origin of migrants on this route.
Total, the variety of unlawful border crossings at all the EU’s exterior borders within the first month of 2022 reached 13,160, 78% greater than in January 2021 and 23% greater than in 2020, in line with preliminary calculations.
The variety of arrivals continues to be above pre-pandemic ranges as demonstrated by the info from 2021. The overall variety of unlawful border-crossings in 2021 was simply wanting 200,000, the best quantity since 2017.
On the identical time nonetheless, the strain on the EU’s Japanese border dropped by practically 75%. The route noticed an intense strain as of Might 2021 with a greater than tenfold improve compared to 2020.
In different vital areas, on the Central Mediterranean route, the variety of arrivals amounted to 2,150 that’s 107% greater than in the identical month final 12 months.
Two out of three migrants arrived from Libya whereas the remainder from Tunisia. Nationals of Egypt, Bangladesh and Cote d’ Ivoire represented the vast majority of the arrivals from Libya whereas Tunisians represented about 67% of the migrants registered from Tunisia.
According to seasonal developments associated to climate situations, the variety of detections on the Western Mediterranean route dropped by 55% to 693. Practically 60% of the migrants registered on this route had been nationals of Algeria.
The Western African route skilled a rise of fifty% with 3,007 detections. Half of the departures on this route occurred from Morocco.
Lastly, at first of the 12 months, the Channel continued to see a major improve in irregular migratory flows from the European Union in the direction of the UK. In January 2022, the variety of sea crossings detected on exit elevated by 273% in comparison with January 2021. Over 2,500 irregular migrants had been detected on either side of the Channel, together with makes an attempt of departure and profitable crossings.