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11 Migrants Die In Shipwreck Off Algeria

18May

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Algeria, News

11 Migrants Die In Shipwreck Off Algeria

Eleven migrants have reportedly drowned after their boat sank off the Algerian coast of Tipaza as they attempted to reach Europe. International Centre for the Identification of Missing Migrants CIPIMD, a Spanish NGO, said that a boat carrying 16 migrants had set sail from North Africa for Spain's Balearic Islands. "Eleven harragas (Arabic nickname for illegal migrants) who had set sail from Fouka (near Tipaza), died and five young people, including two children, were rescued," the private television channel El-Hayet TV reported on its Facebook page. Read Also: Over 40 Migrants Drowned Off Western Sahara Photos of the victims have gone viral on social media. According to Algerian social media users, the victims hail from the town of Fouka, in the Tipaza prefecture, 70km wes...

Over 40 Migrants Drowned Off Western Sahara

At least 44 migrants drowned after their boat sank on Sunday off Western Sahara in southern Morocco, the Spanish NGO Caminando Fronteras said. Moroccan authorities are yet to confirm the deaths. However, according to Helena Maleno, the founder of the NGO Caminando Fronteras, 44 migrants died after their boat sank off Cape Boujdour, Western Sahara. "Seven bodies were transferred to the morgue and the other victims were swallowed by the sea," she added on Twitter. Twelve other migrants survived the sinking and were arrested, according to the same source. Helena Malenon did not specify the destination of the boat, but migrant boats departing from this area usually head for the Spanish archipelago of the Canaries. Located at the north-western tip of Africa, Morocco is ...

25 Nigerien Migrants Dumped in the Desert by Smugglers

At least twenty-five Niger migrants consisting of women and children have been rescued in the northern Niger desert after they were dumped by their driver. This was disclosed by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in a statement issued on Tuesday. The migrants were rescued "last weekend in the Sahara desert by (teams of) IOM and the Directorate of Civil Protection of Niger," said the UN agency in a Facebook post. Nigerien Migrants Left in the Desert The survivors, whose destination was not specified, "remained without food and water for three days" before being found, said the IOM. Rescue operations for migrants are frequent in the hostile Nigerien desert, mainly in areas close to Libya. Many West African migrants try to cross through Libya to reach the Me...