MMC North and West Africa 4Mi Snapshot – March 2024 Protection risks and assistance needs of migrants in the Central Sahel At the beginning of 2024, the outlook for migrants in the Central Sahel region is • 48% of all respondents received help on their journey. [...] 4 Needs at the time of interview are high • Agadez registered the highest proportion of respondents in need of legal assistance (23%), which is linked to the highest proportion of respondents in an irregular situation Most respondents (88%) stated that they needed help at the time of the interv iew. [...] All respondents in Dori • Gao recorded the highest scores of surveyed migrants in need of psychological and Diffa stated that they needed help at the time of interview. [...] There were larger differences between countries and places of interview (see Figure 5): • Cash assistance was cited proportionally more often in Mali (92%), especially in Bamako (98%) and Sikasso (94%), while surveyed migrants in the same locations less often reported other needs such as food (less than 1% and 7% respectively) and shelter (1% and 7% respectively). [...] • Access to work was cited more often in Burkina Faso (48%), particularly in Ouagadougou (54%), highlighting the economic aspirations of migrants seeking job opportunities and who generally had been in Burkina Faso for a longer period (249 days on average) as compared to respondents in the two other countries of interview (202 days for Mali, 148 days for Niger).
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