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December 3, 2024 | 12:20 pm
TEMPO.CO, Madrid - The number of migrants reaching Spain's Canary Islands on precarious vessels from West Africa has hit an all-time annual record with 41,425 arrivals between January 1 and November 30 of this year, Interior Ministry data showed on Monday.
The seven islands off northwestern Africa's Atlantic coast are struggling to absorb the surge in irregular migrants arriving on crammed, open-topped boats seeking better opportunities in Europe.
With one month of 2024 still pending, this is the second year in a row that the archipelago, a front line in Europe's struggle to curb migration, has seen a record number.
Mali, Senegal, and Morocco were the top three nationalities of migrants reaching the Canaries, according to the latest data until October from the European Union's border agency, Frontex.
Seeking to revert the trend, Spain has asked Frontex to resume an air and maritime surveillance operation that ended in 2018 in Mauritania, Senegal, and Gambia.
Last year, 39,910 migrants arrived, surpassing the previous record in 2006.
The Atlantic route is especially dangerous as the ocean's rough weather can easily capsize the fragile rafts, pirogues, and dinghies used by most migrants.
Between January and October, the Canaries registered the fastest increase in arrivals by sea in the EU, even as illegal migrant arrivals in the bloc slumped overall, Frontex data showed.
REUTERS
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