Staff Writer
About 50 Senegalese people who were recently detained in Morocco while attempting to immigrate to Europe were deported by Senegal. From Dakhla, Western Sahara, the group was sent home.
In the last several weeks, 450 Senegalese migrants have been detained in Morocco.
According to the foreign minister of Senegal, the migrants who were repatriated were returned for their health.
“We were able to transport roughly 50 people back with us; their condition, of course, necessitates air evacuation. the 19 patients who were hospitalized. One other patient, who is still pretty ill, was left in the hospital, according to Annette Seck, Senegal’s minister of foreign affairs.
In the following days, a bus from Morocco was to return home with the remaining about 430 migrants. Some of the newcomers were obviously in bad shape; some were using crutches or holding hands.
According to the Senegalese government, 260 Senegalese “in distress were rescued in Moroccan territorial waters” between June 28 and July 9. Eight people perished on Wednesday when their pirogue capsized off Saint-Louis, the northernmost town in Senegal.
The most dangerous route taken by African migrants in their quest to reach Europe is the crossing to the Canaries.
It requires days of sailing in pirogues, which are powered open canoes that are often seaworthy but overloaded and devoid of water, across perilous currents.
