More than 30,000 child migrants crossed the inhospitable Darien jungle in Panama, bound for the US, during the first four months of 2024, a 40% increase compared to the same period last year, Unicef said today. “In the first four months of 2024, more than 30,000 children crossed the Darien region, a 40 percent increase compared to the same period last year,” the United Nations Children's Fund said. Of those 30,000 minors, nearly 2,000 arrived in Panama alone or separated from their families, a threefold increase compared to the first four months of 2023, according to Unicef. The Darien Jungle, a 266-kilometer-long, 5,750,000-acre border zone, has in recent months become a corridor for migrants from South America trying to reach the US. In 2023, more than 520,000 people crossed the jungle, despite the dangers that […]
Source: News Beast
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