Africa-Press – Cape verde. Twenty-six Guinean migrants died off the coast of Senegal after their boat sank a few days ago, said this Friday the Prime Minister of Guinea-Conakry, Amadou Oury Bah, who spoke of a migratory “hemorrhage”.
” So far, we have officially registered around 26 deaths”, the majority of people who left Matam, one of the communes that make up the city of Conakry, he said.
“We currently have around 3,000 of our young people waiting to be repatriated in Niger, 1,200 in Algeria, 400 in the Arab Republic of Egypt, thousands in camps in Italy, not to mention those in the United States, whose number I don’t know. a hemorrhage for our country”, he added, referring to the multiple routes followed by migrants.
Those from Matam seem to have chosen the Atlantic route, which runs west of the African coast and which should lead to Europe.
The sinking was reported on social media in recent days, but authorities had not specified the death toll.
The relatives of the missing, in statements to an AFP correspondent this week, placed the date of departure at the end of April and the tragedy at the beginning of May.
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