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| Nearly 200 migrants intercepted off Morocco coast |
| 2023-08-23 |
| [AlAhram] Morocco's navy on Tuesday rescued nearly 200 Including the latest group, at least 518 Sailors found the latest group, totalling 190, in "waters between Tan-Tan and Dakhla", a military source told state news agency MAP. Among them were 11 women, MAP said. Spain's Canary Islands are only about 150 kilometres (93 miles) off southern Morocco, west of Tan-Tan, which is northeast of Dakhla in the disputed Western Sahara. The Canary migratory route has experienced a marked upsurge of activity in recent weeks. Moroccan authorities said they halted 26,000 irregular migration attempts in the first five months of 2023. In the first six months, 7,213 At least 13 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... ese died in mid-July when their boat sank off Morocco, according to authorities in Senegal. |
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