Mostly sub-Saharan

Marruecos rescata en un día a 127 emigrantes en el Mediterráneo

photo_camera AFP/MARCOS MORENO - The Moroccan Navy rescued 127 migrants this day

Members of the Royal Moroccan Navy rescued this Saturday 127 migrants, mostly sub-Saharans, in different operations in the Mediterranean waters, a military source informed Efe.

These migrants, including 14 women and two minors, were travelling in several inflatable boats that were adrift.

The source explained that, after receiving the necessary medical care on board the navy units, the migrants were taken to different ports in the country to be handed over to the Judicial Police.

Control of the Moroccan coast has intensified throughout the north of Morocco since 2019, and now the boats and illegal vessels leave mainly from the south of the country and the Western Sahara towards the Spanish islands of the Canary Islands in the Atlantic, but irregular boat traffic is sometimes detected in Mediterranean waters as well.

So far this year 18,348 irregular arrivals of migrants have been recorded off the Canary Islands, half of them in the last month, almost all of them Moroccans in this period.
 

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