![Refugee women from the Central African Republic queue up in a refugee camp in Cameroon to receive food rations. Source: UNHCR / C. Tijerina](https://towardfreedom.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Credit-C-Tijerina-Cameroon-326x245.png)
Benin: A Launchpad and Home for African Migrants
This is the fifth year in a row that nearly 1,000 migrants have died or gone missing crossing the Mediterranean. Nearly 48,000 asylum-seekers and migrants have reached Europe’s shores in the first six months of 2018. Many of them passed through Benin on their way to Europe.