Seventeen people were found dead Monday on a boat drifting off El Hierro in Spain’s Canary Islands, officials said, as migrant arrivals to the archipelago surge despite the deadly dangers of the crossing. The migrants on the boat were all sub-Saharan Africans, she added. Earlier this month four people were found dead in a makeshift boat that was found south of El Hierro, with 23 migrants on board. Meanwhile, around 100 migrants tried to swim to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from neighbouring Morocco on Sunday, Spanish police said. The migrants, including minors, set off in groups of 20 to 30 throughout the day, a spokesman for the Guardia Civil police force in Ceuta said.

Source: The North Africa Journal April 27, 2021 00:45 UTC