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Trying to stay afloat without drowning: migrants reopen route to the Spanish Canary Islands
As COVID-19 measures close borders within Africa, migrants find new ways to stay mobile
Traditionelle senegalesiske fiskerbåde udfor byen Fass Boye
Foto af Ida Marie Vammen
A WhatsApp voice message came in from Moustapha Diouf a little over a month ago. “It has started again,” he said, “the pirogues are heading to the Canary Islands.
Nearly 20,000 migrants have arrived in the Canary Islands this year. Read about the reopening of an old migration route.
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Trying to stay afloat without drowning: migrants reopen route to the Spanish Canary Islands
As COVID-19 measures close borders within Africa, migrants find new ways to stay mobile