Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Stowaway Surge

There has recently been a massive uptick in stowaways.

The United Nations' Refugee Agency (UNHCR) places the phenomena as part of a tide of refugees and economic migrants that take their chance at sea. There were some 57,000 irregular arrivals by sea in Southern Europe and 50,000 in Yemen last year alone.

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