An African migrant has been arrested after walking almost the entire 30 miles underground from Calais to England. 
 
 In a “mad race” to reach the UK, Abdul Rahman Haroun, 40, was arrested by British police just steps away from the mouth of the Eurotunnel in Folkestone, Kent. 
 
 This is the first incident of a migrant successfully managing to walk the length of the Channel Tunnel where he is believed to have dodged trains travelling at up to 160kph. 
 
 It is unclear how Rahman Haroun managed to scale four high fortified fences, evade security patrols, dogs and 400 CCTV cameras inside the Eurotunnel site on the French side. 
 
 He is thought to have walked all day in almost complete darkness. He is now facing prison and is unlikely to be able to request asylum. 
 
 An alert was sounded at 7.30am on Tuesday after around 500 migrants attempted 600 times to get into the Eurotunnel terminal overnight. 
 
 An alarm went off in the southern tunnel at ‘interval 5’ in Calais signalling an “anomaly” and traffic was suspended in the 17km stretch of track while police searched the tunnel area, sparking up to two-hour delays for Shuttle passengers coming to France from the Folkestone end. 
 
 Kent Police have confirmed that officers are investigating the incident after Rahman Haroun was located in the Channel Tunnel near to its exit at the Folkestone Terminal at 6.13pm on August 4. 
 
 When the alert was called in the morning, tunnel security attempted to track down the migrant who - according to local newspaper Nord Littoral - had embarked on a “mad race at the risk of his life in almost pitch black with trains travelling at 130kph or even 160kph for the Eurostar”. 
 
 A test train was sent into the tunnel on the French side with agents and an “intense search” was launched to try and spot the illegal intruder. 
 
 However, it was ten hours later that British police intercepted the migrant “a few steps” from the Folkestone entrance. 
 
 He has been charged with causing an obstruction to a train using the railway under the Malicious Damage Act 1861 and is due to appear before Medway Magistrates’ Court on August 6. 
 
 Eurotunnel has filed a legal complaint in Britain over the incident and officers from Home Office Immigration Enforcement are also investigating. 
 
 “This type of criminal intrusion in the tunnel is a very rare event and is both illegal and extremely dangerous,” a Eurotunnel spokesman told Nord Littoral. 
 
 Eurotunnel said that it hoped that “the force of law will be used and justice done” so that this attempt does not set a precedent for other migrants to try and do the same. 
 
 “Not only did he run a significant risk of being seriously injured or killed, but he has also lost all possibilities to request asylum or find work in England,” a spokesman said. 
 
 This is the first time a migrant has managed to walk the entire distance. 
 
 The last attempt was in June 2012, when a migrant managed to get into the same southern tunnel stretch but got stuck in a technical storeroom and was later arrested. 
 
 Another spent several hours wandering in the Channel Tunnel in March 2010, sparking major disruptions to trains. He was later sentenced to a two-month prison term. 
 
 On Saturday night, an organised group of around 200 migrants tried to storm into the Channel Tunnel in the early hours, saying they intended to walk to the UK, tearing down fences and charging past police with tear gas, chanting: “Open the borders!’”. 
 
 On Tuesday night, police said that there were 350 fresh intrusions into the Eurotunnel site despite heavy security and 400 migrants around the 650-hectare zone. ||||| The United Nations said dire living conditions for refugees and migrants living in the French port city of Calais, delays in processing asylum applications and the rising number of people dying while trying to reach Britain constitutes a “civil emergency” that won’t slow down for the foreseeable future. 
 
 Speaking from Geneva on Friday, Vincent Cochetel, director for Europe at the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said the U.N. has been calling for an “urgent, comprehensive and sustainable response” by Europe, and particularly France, to the crisis for the past year, The Local France reports. 
 
 "Let's treat that as a civil emergency," Cochetel said, referring to the situation in Calais. 
 
 An estimated 3,000 people are living in a Calais camp known as “The Jungle,” while thousands have attempted to enter the Channel Tunnel in recent weeks, which runs underneath the English Channel and connects the U.K. and continental Europe. Ten people have died in the process since the beginning of June, according to UNHCR. The European Union agreed earlier this week to give $78 million to the U.K. and France to help both countries deal with the crisis. 
 
 Women and children in Calais are vulnerable to exploitation and trafficking and require particular attention from the French authorities for their protection, said Melissa Fleming, UNHCR spokeswoman, said from Geneva on Friday. 
 
 "We need a comprehensive package, and we need a sustainable response," said Cochetel. "We have had that problem for 14 years.… You don't change geography. This will continue." 
 
 British Prime Minister David Cameron came under fire last week from NGOs and opposition lawmakers for referring to the Calais migrants as “swarms of people.” Germany received 73,120 asylum applications in the first three months of 2015, approximately 10 times the number of people who applied for asylum in the U.K. during the same time period, the U.K.’s Channel 4 reports. 
 
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 Many living in Calais are refugees from Afghanistan, Eritrea, Somalia, Sudan and Syria, but “not all the people gathering in Calais may be refugees,” Fleming said. “Solutions for these other groups may include humane and dignified return to their countries of origin or other countries where they have lived before, in cooperation with the countries of origin and in accordance with international human rights standards,” she said. 
 
 Cochetel recently returned from a visit to some of the Greek islands, including Lesvos and Kos, where more than 124,000 refugees and migrants have arrived by sea this year. There is “total chaos” in Greece, said Cochetel. The conditions in the country’s overcrowded and unsanitary reception centers were the subject of a damning Amnesty International report released earlier this year. There has been a “staggering” 750 percent increase in the number of arrivals to Greece this year compared to the same period in 2014 and 50,000 arrived in July 2015 alone, 20,000 more than the previous month, said UNHCR. 
 
 The “vast majority” of those arriving in Greece are refugees fleeing from conflict zones or countries that practice human rights violations, according the UNHCR. Syrians fleeing their country’s civil war, which entered its fifth year in March, made up 63 percent of 2015 arrivals to Greece and 70 percent of those who arrived in July 2015 alone. 
 
 “Many are in need of urgent medical assistance, water, food, shelter and information. All are exhausted. The reception infrastructure, services and registration procedures are falling far short of real needs,” the U.N. said in a statement Friday. 
 
 "Such a level of suffering should and can be avoided. The Greek authorities need to urgently designate a single body to coordinate response and set up an adequate humanitarian assistance mechanism,” said Cochetel. “As Greece faces financial challenges the country needs help, European countries should support Greece on these efforts." 
 
 Greece is typically the first stop for arrivals before they leave on a journey to other parts of Europe. Cochetel said Greece needs to improve access to its asylum procedure—just 6,200 people applied for asylum by the end of June, a tiny percentage of the overall number of arrivals. The capacity of reception centers on mainland Greece also needs to be increased as up to 450 people, mainly families with young children, are sleeping in the Pedion Tou Areos Park in Athens nightly. 
 
 More than 225,000 refugees and migrants have crossed the Mediterranean by boat in an attempt to reach Europe this year, compared with 200,000 last year. More than 2,000 have died or gone missing in the process this year alone. This week, 25 bodies were recovered after a boat carrying an estimated 700 people capsized off the coast of Libya on Wednesday. Around 400 people were rescued, UNHCR reported.
– A 40-year-old Sudanese man who walked 30 miles in darkness while avoiding search teams, security cameras, and speeding trains in an effort to cross the Channel Tunnel from France to Britain has become a polarizing figure in Europe's growing migrant crisis. The New York Times reports Abdul Haroun was caught and arrested Tuesday just outside England 10 hours after entering the tunnel in France. Haroun is allegedly the first migrant to walk nearly the entire length of the Channel Tunnel, and it's unclear how he was able to enter it without being spotted by heightened security. The Telegraph says he got caught "just steps away" from the English side of the tunnel. “It is illegal and very dangerous to attempt to enter the tunnel, and a person can be seriously injured or killed,” a Eurotunnel spokesman tells the Times. "Mr. Haroun could now face prison, and he will likely not be able to get asylum. He has lost everything.” The tunnel is dealing with nearly 1,000 attempts per day from migrants trying to cross the Channel, many by stowing away in vehicles. At least 10 migrants have died since June, and thousands are living in makeshift camps near the entrance to the Channel in France. The UN calls the situation in the port city of Calais a "civil emergency," reports Newsweek. As Britain and the rest of Europe struggle with how to deal with migrants, some are pointing to Haroun's journey as a prime example of migrants' desperation while fleeing dangers in Africa and the unwillingness of European countries to take them in.