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A group of 26 or 27 Senegalese migrants were wanted on Wednesday in a desert area in northwestern Mauritania.
According to VOA Africa, it is after wrecking on a beach with 75 of their compatriots they tried to rally the Canaries (Spain), announced the Mauritanian authorities.
"The wanted group must be on land, hidden in caves or smuggled into the city" of Nouadhibou (north-west) Mohamed Abdallahi Ould Taleb, a regional police chief, told a news conference.
"Seventy-five other Senegalese, including two women, were intercepted on the way to or near the town. , which ran aground on the Mauritanian shores after five days at sea, "he added.
VOA Africa explains that part of Senegal, the boat, which was trying to reach the archipelago of the Canaries, suffered an engine failure off Morocco then was "swept away by the swell towards the Mauritanian waters, where it ended up stranded" Monday evening, said at this press conference a young Senegalese migrant. [19659003Accordingtothepolicechiefseveralpassengerswereinastateof"extremefatigue"andreceivedtreatmentpendingtheirrepatriationtoSenegalscheduledforThursday
On Sunday, the guards Mauritanian coasts had already towed to the capital, Nouakchott, a boat, seized with 125 migrants on board, all of Senegalese nationality, broke engine in Mauritanian waters, said a security source.
In Senegal itself , 25 candidates for emigration, from the center and west of the country, were arrested on Tuesday while waiting to board a house in a popular area of the suburbs of St. Louis (north-west), according to the local police
The Canary Islands, a hundred kilometers from the Moroccan coast, had been in the mid-2000s one of the main routes of illegal immigration to the European Union.
African migrants then traveled the Mediterranean route more to Spain or Italy on makeshift boats.
In recent times, migrants have been facing enormous difficulties during the crossing of Libya, the north of Senegal knows a "recrudescence of the number of departures", organized by smugglers with often the complicity of local fishermen, according to an officer of the Senegalese border police.
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