Four more will be opened in mid-February on Gran Canaria, Tenerife and Fuerteventura islands for up to 7,000 migrants. The Migrations Ministry, responsible for the camps, declined to comment. Around 23,000 migrants arrived in the Canaries last year, up from 2,687 in 2019. Until authorities closed it in November, newly-arrived migrants stayed at a crammed, hastily improvised dockside camp in Gran Canaria. (Reporting by Joan Faus and Borja Suarez Writing by Joan Faus; Editing by Ingrid Melander and Emelia Sithole-Matarise)(c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2021.

Source: The North Africa Journal January 27, 2021 11:03 UTC