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By Borja Suarez LA LAGUNA, Spain (Reuters) - Dozens of migrants have set up a makeshift camp in Spain's Canary Islands, leaving an official, much larg...
3 Min Read LA LAGUNA, Spain (Reuters) - Dozens of migrants have set up a makeshift camp in Spain’s Canary Islands, leaving an official, much larger camp where they said they had received poor food, scant medical attention and did not have enough showers. In the face of soaring levels of migration from Africa, authorities on the Canaries have resorted to housing thousands in converted former military facilities. More than 1,500 have been living in the Las Raices camp, a former barracks near the city of La Laguna on Tenerife for the last two months. “The camp is really bad,” said a Senega...
Health workers resuscitate toddler after migrant rescue in Canary Islands Reuters 4 days ago By Borja Suarez © Reuters/BORJA SUAREZ A baby is reanimated after being disembarked from a Spanish coast guard vessel, in the port of Arguineguin By Borja Suarez ARGUINEGUIN, Spain (Reuters) - Spanish health workers resuscitated a toddler who was among 52 sub-Saharan African migrants rescued off the island of Gran Canaria in the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday, a Reuters witness and Spanish authorities said. Shortly after a Coast Guard boat carrying the migrants, many of them suffe...
More than 60 North African migrants are living in tents in the mountains of Spain's Gran Canaria island with no access to running water after leaving a Red Cross centre which they say crammed dozens of them into squalid conditions.
4 Min Read GRAN CANARIA, Spain (Reuters) - Spain is launching a new migration policy in the Canary Islands, opening camps for undocumented migrants in a sign that it expects a significant influx of new arrivals, while it largely refuses to transfer them to the mainland. A migrant lies in a tent in the Canarias 50 Camp, after being transferred from hotels on the south of the island, in Gran Canaria, Spain January 26, 2021. REUTERS/Borja Suarez After a huge jump in arrivals from Morocco and sub-Saharan Africa last year sparked tensions in the archipelago, authorities have started to move some m...