Boat with over 100 migrants runs aground in Dakar, Senegal

The migrants were likely aiming to sail another 1,500 kilometers (about 937 miles) across the Atlantic Ocean to Spain’s Canary Islands, which has reemerged as a major migrant transit route since 2020. Nearly 47,000 people disembarked in the Canaries in 2024, an increase from the nearly 40,000 in 20...

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