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"A minimum of 140 individuals" died within the sinking of a migrant boat final week off the coast of Senegal. That is the worst catastrophe of its type in 2020, the Worldwide Group for Migration (IOM) mentioned on Thursday. The boat carried about 200 individuals.
"That is the deadliest shipwreck in 2020," mentioned the…
of migrants drowned after desalination of their canoe
A pirogue that capsized after the explosion of the engine led grief to an entire district of Saint-Louis. On board perhaps 200 migrants destined for Spain. Currently, residents and the Senegalese press are talking about twenty deaths, and President Macky Sall is causing "the loss of more than ten young people". In a statement posted on social networks on Sunday night, the head of state presented his…
The Canary Islands, a new “prison” for migrants from Europe
In one week since October 17, more than 2,600 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa and sub-Saharan Africa have arrived in the Spanish Canary Islands, corresponding to the whole of 2019. The authorities seem overwhelmed. The health situation due to Covid prevents any repatriation to their countries of origin or transfer to the European continent.
After sometimes a thousand kilometers and one to fifteen days of dangerous sea crossing, between 300 and 400 immigrants reach the coast of the Canary Islands every day, the island to…
Coast Guard official accused of having smuggled immigrants arrested
The Libyan government in Tripoli announced on Friday, October 16, the arrest of a Coast Guard official suspected of human trafficking, including migrants to Europe.
Captain Abdelrahman Milad - known as "Al-Bidja" - was a senior official of the Coast Guard in Zawiya, about fifty kilometers west of Tripoli. His name is on a list…
Smugglers push migrants from boat off Djibouti: at least eight dead
According to survivors rescued by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), smugglers "violently pushed young men and women out of the boat." There are eight dead and 12 missing among these migrants trying to return to the Horn of Africa.
It is a horror scene that on Sunday, October 4, described the International…