In 2022, Spain and Morocco resumed diplomatic relations after a year of interruption and stepped up border controls with the aim of reducing arrivals in the Canaries. But many who wish to reach Europe continue to take to the sea and risk their lives.
In the Canary Islands, the International Committee of the Red Cross is training teams to use a tool capable of listing all the relationships a victim may have had during the last hours of their life while crossing the Atlantic Ocean. Julia Dumont reports for InfoMigrants.
Relatives of migrants who have gone missing while trying to reach Europe have held a protest in the Moroccan capital, demanding that authorities investigate the fate of their loved ones.
The Spanish coast guard rescued a total of 344 migrants on Wednesday near the Canary Islands archipelago in the Atlantic. The operation was focused on six different boats in water just off the islands.
A migrant boat with at least 11 people on board has sunk on the way to the Canary Islands from the African continent. The body of a small child was recovered by the Moroccan authorities, along with those of 10 adults.
Spanish rescue services say they found at least one deceased person on a rubber dinghy with 42 other migrants on board. They were brought to Lanzarote in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
Eighty-eight people were rescued at the weekend from a small boat off Cape Verde in the Atlantic Ocean. The migrants had left Gambia more than three weeks ago. Two men died during the journey.
The bodies of 13 Moroccans have been recovered after their boat sank off the country's southern coast. They were reportedly attempting to reach Spain's Canary Islands. In a separate development, some migrants from Morocco reportedly made it into the Spanish territory of Melilla over New Year’s Eve.
More than 11,000 migrants have died trying to reach Spain in the past five years, equating to a daily average of six people. That's according to a new report by Spanish NGO Caminando Fronteras.
One of the three Nigerian men who stowed away on an oil tanker’s rudder from Nigeria to the Canary Islands talks to the Spanish press about his journey and reasons for fleeing.
Spain’s Ministry of the Interior has agreed to re-examine the cases of all three Nigerian nationals who had arrived in the Canary Islands on top the rudder blade of a cargo ship last week. This allowed them to have the status of asylum seeker until a final decision is issued.
Three migrants perched on the rudder of a cargo ship with their feet nearly touching the water have been rescued by the Spanish coast guard. The migrants traveled from Nigeria and arrived in Spain's Canary Islands.