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NECOCLI — After traveling for more than a year by ship, bus and car from Africa in hope of reaching the United States, Simon Gyamfi found himself stuck in a…

By Steven Grattan NECOCLI, Colombia (Reuters) - After traveling for more than a year by ship, bus and car from Africa in hope of reaching the United S...

By Steven Grattan NECOCLI, Colombia (Reuters) - After traveling for more than a year by ship, bus and car from Africa in hope of reaching the United States, Simon Gyamfi found himself stuck in a remote tourist resort on the coast of Colombia with thousands of other migrants. The 42-year-old carpenter, a Christian, fled his home in Ghana because of a dispute with his late wifes Muslim family, he said, and took a month-long ocean voyage to Brazil. The closure of borders due to the coronavirus pand...

NECOCLI, Colombia (Reuters) - After traveling for more than a year by ship, bus and car from Africa in hope of reaching the United States, Simon Gyamfi found himself stuck in a remote tourist resort on the coast of Colombia with thousands of other migrants.

00:00 27/07/2021 21h07 Bogotá, 28 Jul 2021 (AFP) - Milhares de migrantes se encontravam bloqueados em um pequeno porto do noroeste da Colômbia, onde aguardavam para cruzar para a fronteira com o Panamá, parada seguinte de sua travessia rumo aos Estados Unidos, informaram nesta terça-feira órgãos de socorro. A chegada de uma quantidade incomum de haitianos, cubanos, africanos e asiáticos ao município de Necoclí nas últimas semanas superou a capacidade local de transportá-los até o...

Covid strands 1,000 Cuban, Haitian migrants in Colombia AFP 1/29/2021 AFP © JOAQUIN SARMIENTO File image of the town of Capurgana, near Necocli, and the Gulf of Uraba during a Colombian Air Force helicopter flight in Choco department, Colombia, near the border with Panama, on October 14, 2020 The closing of Panamas border due to Covid has stranded a  thousand migrants -- most from Haiti and Cuba -- in Colombia, as they had planned to sneak across on their way to the United...

Rescue workers in Colombia were searching for five migrants missing after their boat carrying 16 people sank as it tried to reach Panama. Two bodies have been found.