Following the recent accidents at sea, Senegalese President Macky Sall offered his saddest condolences to the grieving families, on this painful occasion on the margins of the Council of Ministers, on Thursday, July 20, 2023.
In this context, the Head of State asked the Government to intensify the controls at the level of potential starting areas and sites, but also to deploy all monitoring devices, awareness-raising and support for young people through the strengthening of multi-sectoral public actions to combat illegal emigration,” reads the statement issued by the Council of Ministers on Thursday, 20 July 2023.
As a reminder, a pirogue, with 82 candidates on board for irregular migration, was rescued by the Spanish navy on the night of Tuesday, July 18, 2023 around 11 pm. D’Adhara salvamar’s crew assisted the boat disembarked at the Restinga.
These 79 men and 3 women migrants are all Senegalese who had left Senegal to reach Spain by sea. In a Tweet, Salvamento Maritimo informs that “the search was coordinated by CCS Tenerife, the Helimer 201 aircraft and the Sesmar 101 aircraft”.
A capsizing of a canoe in the breach of Saint-Louis (north) was noted last week, another sinking was reported on the Moroccan coast, precisely off the town of Dakhla. Among the victims, 8 young people living in Rufisque, this Sunday, July 16, 2023.
The latter, from Thiawlene, a fishing district, wanted to return to Europe by sea.
The tragedy occurred a few weeks ago, off the Mediterranean, with on board about forty young people from the department of Rufisque.
They set sail on Tuesday, July 4, in Mbour. However, the dream of these migrants to set foot on Spanish soil will break in Morocco. Originally, there was an accident that saw their boat hit a reef, before it shattered.
The provisional assessment listed on Sunday, July 16, 2023, in the Thiawlene neighborhood reported 8 dead and an undetermined number of seriously injured detained in a makeshift camp in Dakhla.
Daouda Ndoye, spokesman for the families of the victims spoke on the airwaves of the Rfm. He appealed to the authorities: I insist on the situation of the survivors who are in the hospitals in Dakhla. They need emergency assistance. If not, there will be more deaths. We call on the government to repatriate them as soon as possible. They are young people whose parents, through taxes and other means, contribute to the development of this country and are entitled to assistance.”
