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Tuesday, June 20, 2006
And they come by boat across the Mediterranean to Malta - Malta by accident apparently failing to hit Italy, but still a rate of 1,500 a year - and things are getting violent according to the International Herald Tribune: Malta fears sinking under migrants.
Thursday, June 1, 2006
They came from the south, through Morocco to the Spanish Mediteranean ports of Ceuta and Melilla; and in small boats to the Spanish Canary Islands. The Moroccans tightened things up so the small boats were launched from farthur south; Western Sahara, and as things tightened up there in turn, from farthur and farthur south; Mauritania, and now Senegal.
IRIN, Senegal: For out-of-work fishermen, migration offers hope and ready cash.
From Mauritania; Nouadhibou or Nouakchott, 600 miles / 1,000 kilometres. From Senegal; a town called Mbour - 1,000 miles / 1,600 kilometres. Open ocean, against the current, to Tenerife in the Canaries. Paying up-front; 800$US, a lot of money in those places I think. Dying en-route by the thousands. Makes me think of sperm swimming up the fallopian tubes. Apt since they must lose their identities along the way or face repatriation after such a journey - for those who succeed it must be indeed a re-birth.
No wonder that in the pictures of them arriving on the beach there seems to be some respect and courtesy accorded to them by the Spanish Red Cross.
That last picture was taken in the Barbados where one of their boats washed up. Fifty people died horribly. Diao Souncar Dieme wrote, "I would like to send to my family in Bassada a sum of money. Please excuse me and goodbye." Go on, take the time to read it all: Yahoo: African migrants perished in deadly voyage, (Archive).
Tags: Spain, Ceuta, Melilla, Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Senegal, Canary Islands, Immigrants, Clandestino, Barbados.
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
And they come by boat across the Mediterranean to Malta - Malta by accident apparently failing to hit Italy, but still a rate of 1,500 a year - and things are getting violent according to the International Herald Tribune: Malta fears sinking under migrants.
Thursday, June 1, 2006
They came from the south, through Morocco to the Spanish Mediteranean ports of Ceuta and Melilla; and in small boats to the Spanish Canary Islands. The Moroccans tightened things up so the small boats were launched from farthur south; Western Sahara, and as things tightened up there in turn, from farthur and farthur south; Mauritania, and now Senegal.
IRIN, Senegal: For out-of-work fishermen, migration offers hope and ready cash.
From Mauritania; Nouadhibou or Nouakchott, 600 miles / 1,000 kilometres. From Senegal; a town called Mbour - 1,000 miles / 1,600 kilometres. Open ocean, against the current, to Tenerife in the Canaries. Paying up-front; 800$US, a lot of money in those places I think. Dying en-route by the thousands. Makes me think of sperm swimming up the fallopian tubes. Apt since they must lose their identities along the way or face repatriation after such a journey - for those who succeed it must be indeed a re-birth.
No wonder that in the pictures of them arriving on the beach there seems to be some respect and courtesy accorded to them by the Spanish Red Cross.
That last picture was taken in the Barbados where one of their boats washed up. Fifty people died horribly. Diao Souncar Dieme wrote, "I would like to send to my family in Bassada a sum of money. Please excuse me and goodbye." Go on, take the time to read it all: Yahoo: African migrants perished in deadly voyage, (Archive).
Tags: Spain, Ceuta, Melilla, Morocco, Western Sahara, Mauritania, Senegal, Canary Islands, Immigrants, Clandestino, Barbados.
