Canary Islands

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• Morocco
• Spain

Almost 2,100 migrants are estimated to have died trying to reach Spain by sea during the first half of 2021. The death toll is close to figures for the entire previous year, according to the non-governmental organization Caminando Fronteras.

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• Canary Islands

The mother of Yamila, a five-year-old migrant girl who died late on June 29 aboard a helicopter of the Spanish army, is asking for help to travel to France from the Canary Islands to attend her daughter's funeral.

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Spanish police have arrested two men suspected of "steering and navigating" a migrant boat that capsized last week off the Spanish Canary Islands archipelago. Four bodies were recovered following the accident.

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• Canary Islands

Forty-five people, among them several children, were rescued on Sunday and brought to shore on Gran Canaria, the largest of Spain’s Canary Island archipelago in the Atlantic.

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• Côte d’Ivoire

A 17-year old migrant girl from Ivory Coast met her Spanish rescuer in a BBC video last week. Aicha was one of three people to survive a 22-day crossing from Mauritania when she was found drifting at sea by the Spanish Air Force.

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• Spain

The Canary Islands – a tourist paradise if it weren't for the pandemic. But the islands have also been making headlines as more and more migrants arrived there. As camps and shelters were bursting at the seams and hotels were empty anyway because of the pandemic, the island's government requested to have vacation resorts take them in. That didn’t sit well with everyone.

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• Canary Islands

The UN agencies UNHCR and IOM have spoken out against a steady increase in the number of migrants dying at sea after a boat was found near the Tenerife island with the corpses of 24 migrants onboard.

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• Spain

The migrants on the boat were all sub-Saharan Africans, rescue officials say. Three survivors have been transferred to a hospital on Tenerife.

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Tensions are rising on the Canary Islands where migrants feel trapped – they are officially in Europe but unable to get to the mainland. Many of them are leaving the camps, saying they are inadequate.

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• Bosnia & Herzegovina
• Italy

The European agency Frontex reported Thursday that illegal border crossings at Europe's external borders in January fell by almost half from the previous year to about 5,800.

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• Spain

Fearing deportation and racist attacks, migrants stranded in the Canary Islands have been on hunger strike recently to demand their transfer to the mainland. There have also been reports of self-mutilation.

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• Spain

Four migrants were found dead on arrival when a boat carrying 47 migrants landed in Tenerife at dawn, Spanish coast guards said Tuesday. Three others were hospitalized with burns and other injuries.