Highlights
Over the reporting period (31 March –6 April) countries of first arrival (Italy, Greece, and Bulgaria) saw an average decrease of 33% in numbers of arrivals compared with the previous week. In particular, Italy saw a 59% decrease compared to previous week.
The total number of migrants and refugees stranded in Greece and in the Western Balkans is 57,812. For a more detailed look, please see the accommodation pages of Greece, fYROM, Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia.
On 4 April, first migrants and refugees were readmitted from Greece to Turkey as part of the EU-Turkey Agreement. The majority of migrants and refugees were Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan and Moroccan nationals. See Turkey section.
FRONTEX Risk Analysis for 2016 was published on 5 April 2016. In 2015, EU Member States reported 1,82 million detections of illegal crossings. Read here.
See sections on Greece and Italy for an update on the EU’s Relocations Plan.
See new country page on Cyprus and Spain here.
For numbers of fatalities and missing persons in the Mediterranean and Aegean seas, go to page 43.
For information on this report, including details on the sources of this report’s data and tallying methodologies used, please see page 49.
Information about “contingency countries”, Albania, Kosovo (SCR 1244)*, Montenegro, and Bosnia and Herzegovina, is on page 45.
Flow Monitoring: This week’s report focuses on Pakistani and Iranian respondents.
IOM Niger field reports (from 1 February to 4 April) state that there has been a steady growth in outgoing migrants towards Algeria and Libya seeking to go further on to Europe through the Central Mediterranean route. Read the latest report here.