Nine people have died and another 48 are missing after a boat carrying migrants capsized during a rescue operation near the Canary Islands, Spanish authorities said Saturday.
The EU’s Frontex border agency said illegal migrant crossings of the West African route to the Canary Islands have hit a record high.
Spain’s Canary Islands set a new record for the number of illegal arrivals, with more than 32,000 boat migrants landing this year.
More than 1,600 illegal boat migrants have reached the Spanish Canary Islands since Friday, with 314 arriving in the early hours of Monday.
The Senegalese navy announced Sunday it had intercepted four boats, filled with migrants, bound for Europe over the previous three days.
The wildfires that have ravaged the Spanish tourist island of Tenerife were a result of arson, a local official has admitted.
The bodies of 13 Moroccans have been recovered after their boat sank while attempting to reach Spain’s Canary Islands.
An NGO has claimed that since 2018, an average of six migrants have died trying to reach Spain per day, killed by people smugglers.
Three stowaways were discovered perched on the rudder of a ship following a journey from Nigeria, and the men were later hospitalized, according to Spanish officials.
The European Union is set to give Morocco around half a billion euros to help stem the tide of illegal immigration despite claims that the Moroccan government has relaxed surveillance of the Canary Island migrant route. The European Union and
Three men were arrested, accused of being complicit in the deaths of 25 migrants who were allegedly thrown overboard from a smuggler boat.
As many as ten per cent of the women who attempted to reach Spain illegally by boat in 2021 were killed, double the death rate of male migrants, according to statistics compiled by a Spanish NGO.
The European Union border agency Fontex has reported that illegal arrivals into the European Union in January of this year have increased by 78 per cent compared to the same time in 2021. Frontex reported on Tuesday that the number
Spain saw at least 4,202 illegal migrant arrivals in the first month of 2022, up 30.6 per cent compared to the same period last year.
A Spanish court has sentenced a pair of African national people traffickers to nine years in prison over the deaths of nine migrants.
According to a human rights group, there were at last 4,400 deaths along migrant routes to Spain in 2021, a figure double of 2020.
According to the European Union border agency Frontex, illegal migration increased by 70 per cent in the first ten months of 2021 compared to the prior year.
Anonymous Rescuers have saved three dogs that were trapped near the erupting Cumbre Vieja volcano located in the Canary Islands. Before the dogs were rescued by a group calling itself the “A Team,” the dogs were brought food and water by drone and an audacious plan to rescue them using drones was hatched by concerned citizens.
The number of illegal migrant arrivals in Spain from January to the end of September has increased by 51 per cent, according to figures released by the Spanish Ministry of the Interior.
European Commissioner for Migration Ylva Johansson admitted that just a third of bogus, rejected asylum seekers return to their home countries — and less than a third go voluntarily.
Social media giant Twitter suspended the main account of Spanish populist party VOX this week after the party launched a new campaign to push back against Islamisation.
The number of illegal migrants entering Europe decreased by 13 per cent in 2020, the lowest number since 2013 and caused mainly by the Chinese coronavirus travel restrictions.
(AFP) — Four migrants died during a perilous journey from the coast of Africa to Spain’s Canary Islands, which last year registered a huge surge in arrivals, rescuers said on Tuesday. The four were found dead on arrival when a
The Spanish Canary Islands saw over 8,000 migrants arrive in November, in what could be an all-time monthly record for the islands.
Spain will send law enforcement personnel into Senegal, Africa, to tackle people-smugglers after illegal migration from West Africa to the Canary Islands increased by 1,000 per cent on 2019.
A surge of illegal boat migrants from Africa landed on the Spanish Canary Islands over the weekend, in numbers not seen since 2006. Between Saturday and Sunday, approximately 2,000 migrants on 45 boats landed on the Spanish archipelago, which is
The Spanish Canary Islands have seen a massive 700 per cent rise in new illegal migrant arrivals in 2020 and European Union officials are calling the influx “unsustainable”.
ARGUINEGUIN, Spain (AP) — Five more migrants have died while trying to reach the southern Canary Islands from west Africa, bringing to 20 the number of who lost their lives this week attempting to navigate perilous migration routes to Europe, Spanish authorities said Friday.
A tourist hotel on the Canary Island of Tenerife was placed in quarantine Tuesday after one man tested positive for Coronavirus.
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) – Spain on Tuesday was searching for some 143 people missing on five migrant boats en route to the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean, according to Spain’s maritime rescue service. A Civil Guard plane was searching
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AP) – Scores of migrants who swam through rough Atlantic Ocean waters to safety from a capsized boat while 58 others drowned were receiving care Thursday in Mauritania after one of the deadliest disasters this year among people making the perilous journey to Europe.
