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| More than 60 Senegalese migrants feared dead on monthlong voyage to Spain |
| 2023-08-18 |
| [AlAhram] More than 60 Seven bodies were found on the boat and an estimated 56 people are missing at sea and presumed dead, said International Organization for Migration spokesperson Safa Msehli. According to Senegal ... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees... ’s foreign affairs ministry, 38 people were rescued earlier in the week near Cape Verde, about 620 kilometers (385 miles) off the coast of West Africa. The Spanish migration advocacy group Walking Borders said the vessel was a large fishing boat, called a pirogue, which had left Senegal on July 10. “It’ll be easy, guys! We just need to sail north, then turn right through the Straits of Gibralter.” Families in Fass Boye, a seaside town 145 kilometers (90 miles) north of the capital, Dakar, reached out to Walking Borders on July 20 after 10 days without hearing from loved ones on the boat, group founder Helena Maleno Garzón said.Cheikh Awa Boye, president of the local fishing association, said survivors called home from Cape Verde after the rescue. Boye said two of his nephews are among those missing. Spain’s Maritime Rescue Service confirmed that a Spanish fishing boat named the Zillarri rescued 38 people and recovered seven bodies from a Senegalese pirogue on Aug. 14 after spotting it adrift northeast of Cape Verde. An official of the tropical tuna fishing company PEVASA, which operates the Zillarri, said the survivors were asking for help and were in a "bad state." The route from West Africa to Spain is one of the world’s most dangerous, yet the number of “Oh, wait — it’ll even easier if we pull in at the Canary Islands. We can’t miss ‘em — they’ll be the yellow ones.” Nearly 1,000 Nearly 10,000 people have reached the Canary Islands by sea from the northwest coast of Africa so far this year, according to Spanish Interior Ministry figures. On Aug. 7, the Moroccan navy recovered the bodies of five Senegalese In 2021, an AP investigation found at least seven migrant boats from northwest Africa had become lost in the Atlantic and were found drifting across the Caribbean and even off Brazil, carrying only lifeless bodies. Related: Senegal: 2023-08-12 Russian foreign ministry backs ECOWAS efforts to resolve crisis in Niger Senegal: 2023-08-11 Niger Coup News Roundup for August 10th, 2023 Senegal: 2023-08-10 Niger Coup News Roundup for August 9th, 2023 Related: International Organization for Migration: 2023-08-13 Nearly 300 Yazidi IDPs return to Shingal: Iraqi minister International Organization for Migration: 2023-08-09 Iraq says 100 Yazidi IDPs returned to Shingal International Organization for Migration: 2023-07-29 Almost 800 migrants drowned off Tunisia in six months: National Guard |
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