Senegal Intercepts 142 Migrants Off Dakar to Spain
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The Senegalese police intercepted 142 migrants off Dazar, including women and children, who were trying to get to Spain in a canoe, in an operation on Friday, announced that security force today.
On Friday, 6 November 2026, the Keur Massar Research Brigade intercepted a canoe carrying 142 irregular emigration candidates who were trying to rally Spain. Among the persons intercepted were Senegalese, Gambian, Guinean, Guinean and Nigerian nationals, as well as infants and minor children. The operation also allowed the seizure of a pirogue engine and several fuel containers totalling 3,760 litres. Several candidates, including burn victims, …
Dakar, 7 Nov 2026 (AFP) – The Senegalese gendarmerie announced on Saturday that it had intercepted 142 illegal migrants off Dakar, including several women and children, who were trying to reach Spain on board a canoe. The operation took place on Friday. Among the intercepted persons are 40 Senegalese, including four women, 93 Gambians, of whom 17 [...] Read more Senegal: 142 migrants on their way to Spain intercepted off Dakar appeared first on …
Each year, the same images return: canoes intercepted off the coast of Saint-Louis, camps dismantled in the Mauritanian desert, official reports announcing thousands of "prohibited" departures. And every year, the same departures are repeated, by other routes, with other smugglers, to other horizons. Senegal and Spain have just announced the strengthening of their migration cooperation.
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