HIGHLIGHTS
28,164 refugees and migrants have crossed the border into fyR Macedonia during the reporting period 18 - 24 November, with a daily average of 4023. Since UNHCR began monitoring the departures from Gevgelija on 1 July 2015 some 586,000 refugees and migrants have departed.
While onward movement continued through fYR Macedonia during the re-porting period, new border controls were introduced on 18 November in neighboring countries, which started screening out nationalities perceived as not being in need of international protection, namely non-Syrian, Afghani and Iraqi. This has caused a slight drop in arrivals and some concentration of refu-gees and migrants at the country’s borders and transit centers.
Intention to apply for asylum: 279,914 applications have been filed from 19 June to 24 November 2015 (source: Ministry of Interior).
KEY FIGURES
21,767
Medical interventions provided
4902
Medical assistance to children
14,793
Unaccompanied minors registered
26,122
Food packages & sandwiches distributed
4079
Blankets distributed
UPDATE ON ACHIEVEMENTS
Operational Context
28,164 refugees and migrants have crossed the border into fyR Macedonia during the reporting period 18-24 November with a daily average of 4023. Since UNHCR began monitoring the departures from Gevgelija on 1 July 2015 some 586,000 refugees and migrants have departed.
The Ministry of Interior’s statistics of refugees and migrants de-claring their intention to apply for asylum reached 278,120 in-cluding 73,123 (26%) children, of whom 14,889 (5%) are unac-companied since 19 June until 24 November 2015. Of these 168,472 (61%) of the arrivals are Syrians, 63,848 (23%) Afghans, 24,367 (9%) Iraqis, 6231 (2%) Iranians and the remainder repre-sent other nationalities such as Palestinians, Pakistanis, Somalis, Congolese and Bangladeshi. 80 applications for asylum were registered out of which 53 were submitted by Syrians in the same period while from January to end of October 1,739 asylum applications were submitted.