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CHAD – New camps built to welcome more and more refugees
More than 240,000 people from Sudan have crossed the border since hostilities began in Khartoum three months ago, according to RFI....
IVORY COAST: Slave migrants in Libya: Alpha Blondy challenges the African Union and ECOWAS.
CNN's video showing migrants sold as slaves in Libya continues to stir up anger and indignation on the web. The reactions are numerous.
"To the...
SENEGAL – Migrant canoe fire kills at least 14 people in Kafountine
The Senegalese coasts were unfortunately the scene of a new drama on Monday, June 27, 2022. In the commune of Kafountine...
SENEGAL: Case of Assane Diouf: The beautiful victory of the little dullard of Sandaga...
Considered a madman, a drug addict for some, a hero for others, the Senegalese, Assane Diouf, leaves no one indifferent. The man who...
SENEGAL – At least 14 dead in the capsizing of a canoe off Ouakam
At least 14 lifeless bodies were found after a pirogue capsized on the night of Sunday to Monday, July 24, 2023...
SUDAN: Nima Elbagir, the Sudanese journalist who filmed the sale of slaves in Libya.
Nina Elbagir was born in 1978 in Sudan and grew up in the United Kingdom. This young Sudanese journalist is a CNN correspondent in...
IMMIGRATION – Two migrant smuggling convoys in custody
The gendarmes the Territorial Brigade of Joal Sy managed to get their hands on two conveyors, this Tuesday, May 09, 2023....
SENEGAL: 3 million would be necessary for the defense of Assane Diouf.
A US lawyer has agreed to defend Assane Diouf, detained in a US jail in two court cases: a terrorism case, on the denunciation...
AFRICA – Migrant smuggling brings 59 billion CFA francs to smugglers per year
Illicit financial flows (FFI) from migrant smuggling from West Africa to Europe are estimated at more than $100 million per year,...
SENEGAL: Thione Niang: I no longer feel safe!
Thione Niang no longer feels safe in her country of origin, Senegal. The young prodigy has decided in recent years to return to Senegal...
IMMIGRATION – Irregular migration up 300%
Despite Giorgia Meloni’s electoral promises, the Central Mediterranean saw a considerable increase in irregular migration in 2023, with the highest figures...
SENEGAL: Exclusive: Assane Diouf will not be finally extradited to Dakar.
L4The State of Senegal will finally be satisfied with suffering the attacks of Assane Diouf which will begin more beautiful in the days to...
ILLEGAL EMIGRATION – 66 Senegalese migrants arrive in Tenerife
Sixty-six (66) people arrived during the day of Thursday, August 03, 2023 in Tenerife aboard two canoes. In one of them...
SENEGAL: Lenine Nankassa Boucal wins 2020 Charles Biddle Prize in Canada
Born in Ziguinchor, Lenine Nankassa Boucal is a social entrepreneur and cultural worker based in Quebec since 2007. After travelling through...
SENEGAL-GUINEA – Deportation of Guineans to Senegal: Conacry accuses Senegalese authorities
hef of the Transitional Government evoked cases of mistreatment suffered by ECOWAS nationals taken, according to him, as scapegoats in internal...
BURKINA FASO: Clandestine immigration in Europe: a project against common misconceptions is launched.
The National Youth Council of Burkina Faso (CNJ-BF) and its partners launched, on 29 August 2017 in Ouagadougou, the project "Lost dreams-verlorene träume -...
SENEGAL – 97 migrants intercepted in Saint-Louis by the French Navy
The National Navy has boarded Thursday, August 24, 2024 a dugout canoe of clandestines off the coast of Saint-Louisiennes. The canoe...
MAURITANIA: Aldouma Cissocko: “When I saw him, he made me think of Serigne Touba...
I met him two years ago in Dakar. The first time my eyes landed on him, he made me think of Serigne...
AFRICA – Black hunting in Tunisia: The President does not call for calm among...
Tunisian President Kaïs Saïed, known for his biased remarks about sub-Saharan migrants, did not call for calm among his fellow citizens....
SENEGAL: Assane Diouf free.
The public prosecutor, Sérigne Bassirou Gueye has decided to release the Senegalese citizen Assane Diouf, repatriated from the United States on Wednesday 30 August...
SENEGAL/SPAIN – Both countries sign agreement to fight immigration
Illegal emigration is at the heart of the official visit of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to Dakar. The latter met with...
MISSING MIGRANTS – Greenpeace Africa denounces the impact of the neo-colonial exploitation of resources
Greenpeace Africa expresses its deep «sadness» and «indignation» at the disappearance of several boats of migrants from Senegal. According to Agence...
BURUNDI: More than 300 Burundian refugees from Tanzania return.
It is around 11:30 am that about ten large buses and trucks land on the Burundi-Tanzanian border in the Ruyigi province, Gisuru commune.
97 Burundian...
SENEGAL – “Circular migration”: MP Mame Diarra Fam shows her disagreement
Spain and Senegal signed a “circular migration” agreement on Friday. An agreement that the member of the diaspora Mame Diarra Fam does...
CHAD – Central African refugees fear being forgotten
Surrounded by countries in crisis, Chad has just adopted a particularly progressive law cited by the UN as a model for...
SENEGAL: Senegalese diaspora ready to serve its nation.
A Beninese adage says "Everything that belongs to the house must return to the House" Senegalese and Senegalese are really aware of it. We...
[ IMMIGRATION ] – More than 2000 migrants lost their lives at sea 2021
The figure is chilling. 2087 is the exact number of migrants who died at sea in an attempt to return to...
IMMIGRATION – 276 migrants in Morocco soon repatriated to Senegal
The government is working to repatriate 276 Senegalese placed in a detention center in Dakhla, Morocco, revealed Thursday the Interior Minister,...
SENEGAL: Mamadou Samba’s speech at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation.
Mamadou Samba Executive Director at DC Mayor's Office on African Affairs at Washintong District of Colombia was at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Annual...
EMIGRATION – More than 700 migrants rescued off Malta and Libya
Six successful rescue operations for migrants off Malta and Libya in the Central Mediterranean were carried out. More than 700 candidates...
MOROCCO – Capsizing of a migrant canoe: 8 young people from Rufisque among the...
We have not yet finished counting the tragedies of irregular migration that are currently shaking Senegal. After the capsizing of a...
LIBYA: Migrants sold at auction.
A video obtained by CNN (and taken by several media) showing migrants sold at auction in Tripoli, does not stop shocking. We see migrants...
