From The Sunday Times Magazine, 22 November 2009:
“Meet the survivors, bereaved families from Gambia and Senegal, and a man who smuggles the people — at a colossal price.”
“… The routes [African migrants] take are many and varied. From west Africa, migrants trek through the pitiless Sahara to Libya, from there to brave the Mediterranean — or, more perilous yet, strike out for the Canary Islands in fragile canoes known as ‘pirogues’. If they then cross to the Spanish mainland they will probably do so in tiny, open Spanish fishing boats. An estimated one in every eight migrants who try to travel across the ocean to Europe don’t make it, their bodies carried out into the cold Atlantic. Those who perish are identified only by chance, their skeletons dredged from the sea by Italian and Spanish trawlers, or their bodies washed on to beaches used by holidaymakers…”
Full article: African migrants and their desperate ploy for a better life – Times Online.
MIGRANTS AT SEA 