Last year, more than half a million migrants crossed the Darién Gap, a remote rainforest between South and North America now at the heart of the Western Hemisphere's largest migration crisis
Last year, more than half a million migrants crossed the Darién Gap, a remote rainforest between South and North America now at the heart of the Western Hemisphere's largest migration crisis
Ms Da Silva, who was seven months pregnant, struggled with every step of the 70-mile journey in the fierce tropical heat of up to 35°C. Her husband carried their two-year-old daughter in his arms. Streams of other“I am used to the worst kinds of suffering,” added Ms Da Silva, who fled death threats in her hometown of Benguela last year. “So I believe that I can survive this.”
“There are many dangers that people face: serious violence and crime, injury, starvation, poisonous snakes and scorpions,” said Daniel Arango, project director in Panama for theNatalia Romero Peñuela, a spokesperson for Doctors without Borders , which runs three facilities at exit points of the Darién, said there had been a surge in sexual violence – 214 cases in December – including reports of armed men detaining groups of up to 200 migrants, sometimes using “rape tents” set up in...
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