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Central Mediterranean Situation: A routes-based approach to protection services along mixed movements routes

Each year, thousands of refugees and migrants are subjected to horrific abuses as they move along different routes within the Sahel and East Africa, and towards North Africa and sometimes on to Europe. The journey across Africa to coastal points of sea departures remains one of the world’s most dangerous. UNHCR works to provide international protection and assistance to refugees, asylum-seekers and other displaced, and to find, together with governments, solutions for them.

This report on "Routes-Based Mapping of Protection Services" covers 16 countries along the Central and Western Mediterranean and Northwest Africa Maritime Routes.

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