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Spain rescues boat with 86 migrants, hundreds likely still missing

Spain rescues boat with 86 migrants, hundreds likely still missing

SPANISH maritime rescue that dispatched a plane and a ship to search for a fishing vessel from Senegal with about 200 migrants on board and missing for nearly two weeks, discovered what appears to be a different migrant boat. The reconnaissance plane spotted a boat 71 miles (114 km) to the south of the island of Gran Canaria, which the rescue service initially thought could have been the missing boat. But its spokesperson later said the rescue vessel found 86 people on board and only a further investigation would show where it had sailed from. The boat was being towed…
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After frantic search, Moroccan woman finds brother stranded on Canary Islands

After frantic search, Moroccan woman finds brother stranded on Canary Islands

ON November 7, Sarah Bettache received an unexpected phone call from her brother Ahmed, who told her he was on the Spanish island of Gran Canaria. Two days earlier, the 19-year-old had left his native Morocco on a rickety boat and embarked on a dangerous journey to reach the Canary Islands archipelago, around 100 km (60 miles) away. Like a record number of other migrants this year, he was seeking a better future in Europe. Bettache, who is 27 and lives in France where she has citizenship, had no warning of her brother's drastic action, and nor did the rest…
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Demonstrators demand better conditions for Canary Islands’ migrant arrivals

Demonstrators demand better conditions for Canary Islands’ migrant arrivals

BORJA SUAREZ DEMONSTRATORS on the Canary Islands have demanded better living conditions for thousands of migrants who have reached the Spanish archipelago from Africa. A slow procession of hundreds of demonstrators, some on foot and some in cars, crossed the island of Gran Canaria before reaching the Arguineguin dock in the town of Mogan, where nearly 2,000 migrants are living in tents in conditions that an immigration judge has called "inhumane and degrading". Over 700 migrants in small boats were rescued on Saturday, coastguards said, bringing the number of people who have reached the islands by the dangerous Atlantic route…
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