Senegalese migrants booted from Spain
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By Pascal Fletcher Dakar - Spain said on Wednesday it was restarting the repatriation of hundreds of illegal Senegalese migrants detained in the Spanish Canary Islands, a move which some have resisted with ...
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The Spanish government has begun airing emotional television adverts across West Africa as part of its attempts to combat illegal immigration. The $1.4m media campaign is to run for six weeks and has begun in Senegal. The aim of the campaign is to discourage potential migrants from attempting the dangerous 12-day voyage by boat to the Canary Islands. "My son left ... and we haven't heard from him in eight months," a distraught Senegalese woman says in one advert.  It then cuts to a boy lying face down on the rocks, apparently drowned.  In the past two years Spain has signed co-operation and repatriation agreements with Algeria, Morocco, Senegal, Mauritania, Gambia, Guinea, Mali and Ghana.
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At least 20 migrants drowned when their boat split while sailing from Africa to Spain's Canary Islands, survivors told police Thursday.
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Spanish coastguard towed a boatload of 33 would-be immigrants from Ivory Coast and Gambia into a Canary Islands port after they called for assistance by mobile phone, emergency services said.
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The wave of illegal African immigration to Spain's Canary Islands continued into 2008 as three boats carrying 126 migrants arrived Tuesday on the archipelago off the coast of Morocco, officials said.
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Almost 200 migrants believed to be from Pakistan and Sri Lanka reach the Canary Islands by boat.
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Britain has begun deporting failed asylum seekers from Zimbabwe, rights groups said, claiming that at least 10 people had been expelled since last month when the government lifted a ban blocking enforced deportations to the southern African country.
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A boat carrying 400 illegal migrants was finally allowed to dock in Mauritania on Monday, after being stranded for 10 days in international waters off the northwest African country's coast.
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An airplane of the Spanish Air Forcedeparted Tuesday for Cote d'Ivoire to help the Spanish residents there who have asked to be repatriated home, the Diplomatic Information Office said.
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MADRID, May 15 (IPS) - A new wave of African immigrants has left a number  of victims behind on the route to Spain's  Canary Islands,  where 1,300 undocumented immigrants have arrived in the last five  days.
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Various European officials are trumpeting a substantial drop in the number of African migrants crossing the Mediterranean.
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Spanish authorities rescued more than  200 would-be migrants on Saturday from a decrepit fishing boat  found drifting off the Canary Islands, officials said.
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Mauritania seizes a boatload of Africans heading for Europe for the first time.
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A boatload of 59 dazed and exhausted African men arrived Tuesday in the Canary Islands, the latest wave in a constant flood of desperate migrants seeking a better life in Europe.
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Between 200 and 300 expatriates were expected to have been flown out of the west African state by tonight after the British army was called in to evacuate them.
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Spain and Senegal resume the repatriation of Senegalese illegal migrants from the Canary Islands, officials say.
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Spanish police caught more than 670 Africans trying to reach the Canary Islands in overcrowded boats that set out from Mauritania, a record for a single day, officials said Sunday.