STATISTICS AND HIGHLIGHTS
While HCIT access to asylum seekers in Kelebija and Horgos border crossings with Hungary remain denied by the authorities, the organisation distributed food and non-food aid in Subotica and nearby.
68 asylum seekers departed by accessing procedures in Hungarian “transit zones”.
UNHCR and partners learned of 34 irregular arrivals from fYR Macedonia.
12 persons expressed intent to seek asylum, bringing the total in April 2016 to 454 and for the whole of 2016 to 2,395 (statistics courtesy of the Ministry of Interior).
SOUTH
55 refugees were hosted at the Reception Centre (RC) in Presevo. Many left the RC towards the North, including 31 irregular arrivals of the last few days that entered into Serbia from fYR Macedonia. The UNICEF/DRC/CSW child friendly space/mother and baby corner hosted 20 children and 16 women. Humedica will continue to offer medical assistance with a mobile clinic while Natan concluded its presence in South Serbia. The UNHCR-supported Public Health and the Natan/Humedica clinic treated 26 patients during the day.
BELGRADE
UNHCR and partners assisted over 250 refugees, asylum-seekers and migrants in the city. They were mostly from Afghanistan and Pakistan, with few from Syria. The Asylum Info Centre facilitated in various referrals, including access asylum procedures to recent irregular arrivals from fYR Macedonia. UNHCR/DRC doctors treated two patients while MSF, Refugee Aid Miksaliste and Divac Foundation assisted them with food and other aid. Some 120 were present at night in the parks near the bus and train station while Krnjaca Asylum Centre accommodated refugees during the night even without a referral letter.
WEST
43 refugees remain hosted in the Refugees Aid Points (RAPs) in the West: 17 in Adasevci and 26 in Sid where one applied for asylum and was referred to Banja Koviljaca Asylum Centre. CRS/Divac Foundation continued to provide hot lunches and OM hot tea. The BCM/Sid Health Centre at Adasevci treated two refugees and WAHA seven in Sid.
NORTH
337 asylum seekers, including many women and children, waited outside the two “transit zones” in Kelebija and Horgos border-crossings or located nearby Subotica. They had arrived from the West and the South but many were also recent irregular arrivals to Serbia from fYR Macedonia and Bulgaria. They stayed in improvised tents without any sanitary facilities nearby. The garbage collection and hygienic conditions at both sites remain a challenge. Some 30 asylum seekers were admitted into each “transit zone”
While HCIT access to asylum seekers at the two border crossing with Hungary was still denied by the authorities, the organisation distributed food, 15 water bottles, 30 WFP HEBs and five raincoats in different locations near Subotica and at the bus station.
UNHCR and UNICEF assisted asylum seekers at Kelebija and Horgos where they distributed 190 lunch packages and other food and non-food aid for children including UNIQLO clothes. Additional 295 food packages were donated by CARE/NSHC. MSF offered medical assistance at all locations.
13 individuals remain hosted at the Subotica RAP after the facilities were opened by SCRM in order to accommodate asylum seekers due to cold and rainy weather.