LAS PALMAS / PRAHA Thanks to the exceptionally favorable climate, the Kanr Islands have been a popular tourist destination for many years from all over Europe. However, their geographical proximity to mainland Africa means that they act like a magnet and a gateway to Europe for poor Africans who are trying to reach the islands on makeshift ships.
Traffic on this so-called Atlantic refugee route has intensified in recent weeks and has caused it to provoke heated activity both on the islands themselves and on the Spanish political scene.
According to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), 17,000 Africans arrived in Africa from Africa between the end of the year and mid-November, which is about ten times as many as last year. The number of new arrivals has grown mainly in recent weeks, and although they are far from reaching those of the crisis year 2016 (then the Canary Islands registered almost 32,000 African banks), the situation is causing humanitarian, logistical and first problems.
It is especially the second most populous island of Gran Canaria, where the Afrian fever has arrived. In recent days, the situation has been critical of the Arguinegen port, only about 10 kilometers from the largest tourist resort of Maspalomas.
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The improvised receiver at the port was so full of the refugee arrivals that one of the great policemen decided a few days ago under the pressure of a critical situation to open the Brno operation and several hundred Afrians went to the capital of Las Palmas to reach the mc. to the mainland of Iceland. The bags prevented them from doing so.
Soon a kind of refugee camp was hastily opened for refugees, in the former military facility of Barranco Seco on the outskirts of Las Palmas, and the series promised children a large barracks on the islands of Tenerife and Fuerteventura. Several thousand refugees found temporary accommodation in hotel apartments, which now, due to the coronavirus crisis and nice travel, have many fewer regular clients than usual.
Among the inhabitants of the Kanry Islands themselves, there has not been an influx of money, and it has no doubt caused a strain, not least because the large resident has immigrant roots. Several smaller demonstrations, both for better conditions and against illegal migration, took place in peace.
The shortest distance between the coasts of western Africa and the Canary Islands and a dog can only be less than 100 kilometers, so in good weather it can be covered by other improvised vessels. However, according to an estimate by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), this route is certainly not a safe route alone. More than 400 people did not drink this route this year alone.
Missions in Morocco and Senegal
Although the European Council is making every effort to improve the humanitarian situation on the island of Gran Canaria, they are so united that they intend to prevent the move from the Canary Islands to the Spanish mainland. And to return to the land of origin those who do not claim asylum.
In an effort to dream of refugee support on the archipelago, at the end of last week, the ministers of the Spanish government went to Morocco and Senegal. The first of these countries, plus Mauritania, is said to recruit most of the peoples.
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If you try to get to it illegally, you have to deal with the prepared () Two men are open to the Senegalese, who want to migrate legally, in a different way, said the foreign minister Arancha Gonzles Layaov in the Senegalese capital Dakar this weekend. The main goal of her mission was to agree with the politicians of their own staff to send Pan police officers to Senegal to help break up Paerck gangs organizing illegal migration.
In Morocco, again, the Spanish Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, acted in front of the center, which should prevent the fugitive from just embarking on a dangerous journey. And he warned that if the bencm could reach the Kanrsk Islands, the road would not work. Let us prevent the Kanr Islands from becoming Brno’s entry into Europe, the minister said.
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