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africa, migration, spain

New Deals with Guinea and Gambia

  Publicerad av Emanuel Sidea

Spain has announced deals with Guinea and Gambia to curb the flow of illegal migrants towards Europe in a diplomatic offensive that pledged more Spanish aid and cooperation to poor West African states. (…)

Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos (…) announced a €5 million ($8.49 million) aid package, part of a two-pronged strategy that seeks to halt migrant departures and also back long-term development aimed at persuading young Africans to stay in their own nations.

In Gambia, he sealed a similar deal to expand legal migration channels while tightening controls to keep out clandestine job-seekers from the world’s poorest continent.

“We will open avenues where Gambians can have opportunities to work in Spain legally if they have legal documents,” he told reporters after signing the agreement in Banjul.

A record number of around 26,000 mostly African migrants have landed in the Canaries this year (…)
NEWS.com.au (10 Oct 2006)