The fisherman from Senegal keeping Spain’s vessels afloat
WATCHING news of Senegalese migrants arriving on the Canary Islands stirs memories for Babou Diouf of the same perilous journey he undertook 17 years ago and his arduous path to his new home - Burela, on Spain’s northern coast. Diouf, 46, a fisherman from Bassoul in Senegal’s Sine Saloum delta, was part of a migration surge in 2006 from West Africa through Spain’s Canary Islands, which lie around 100 km (60 miles) off Africa’s northwestern coast. Fishermen Diouf, 46, Tony, 39, from Indonesia, Eduardo Garcia, 49, from Spain, and Mamadou Sarr, 38, from Senegal, arrange the nets after fishing in…