U.S.-bound migrants fill Colombia town as COVID-19 border closures lifted
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…
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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 wife's Muslim family, he said, and took a month-long ocean voyage to Brazil. The closure of borders due to the coronavirus pandemic left him stranded there for months. Now, after the frontiers finally reopened, he has made his...
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 município fronteiriço de Acandí, explicou à AFP César Zuñiga, diretor da Unidade de Gestão d...