article_snippet.sent: From the Horn of Africa to the Atlantic, from Syria and Gaza, these would-be migrants travel well-established smuggling routes.
article_snippet.sent: The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has tracked the migrant flows through North Africa for years.
article_snippet.sent: the Regional Mixed Migration Secretariat (RMMS) in Nairobi travel to Sudan, so long as the Regional Mixed Migration Secretariat (RMMS) in Nairobi can avoid kidnap by tribes on the border, and are handed from one group of smugglers to the next in relay.
article_snippet.sent: Eritreans and Syrians made up half of the migrant traffic to Europe last year, according to Arezo Malakooti, director of migration research at Altai Consulting and author of one of the most detailed studies of migration patterns.
article_snippet.sent: The IOM told CNN CNN is seeing a spike in would-be migrants from Senegal, Mali, Guinea and Gambia in West Africa.
article_snippet.sent: A Geneva-based group, the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, estimated last year that about half of West African migrants pass through the town of Agadez in northern Niger.
article_snippet.sent: Reliable figures on the numbers passing through Agadez are difficult to come by, but the consensus among experts is somewhere between 2,000 and 7,000 every month.
article_snippet.sent: Other hubs include Khartoum in Sudan, a way-station for migrants from East Africa, and Tamanrasset in southern Algeria, where a fake Malian passport aids passage.
article_snippet.sent: Algeria has also been a destination for Syrian refugees, but new visa requirements have forced Syrian refugees to seek other routes -- often through Turkey and the Greek islands.
article_snippet.sent: Some West Africans opt to travel through Morocco -- even though the chances of detection there are much greater and the sea crossing to Spain very difficult.
article_snippet.sent: Tunisia has massively increased security along Tunisia eastern border with Libya; both Algeria and Morocco have begun building fences along Algeria and Morocco border -- against both terrorism and clandestine migration.
highlights_snippet.sent: Would-be immigrants come from more than 20 countries to North Africa to cross Mediterranean to Europe .
  