Spain has delivered six new multicopter drones to Senegal and plans to reinforce its deployed security personnel to help the West African nation tackle a migration crisis, Spain’s acting Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said on Monday.<\/p>\n
Grande-Marlaska is in Senegal where he met his Senegalese counterpart, Sidiki Kaba, as the number of would-be migrants from West Africa, especially Senegal, to reach Spain’s Canary Islands this year is near a\u00a0record high.<\/p>\n
Grande-Marlaska said the drones delivered to the Senegal Police are designed to detect vessel departures so that they could be intercepted.<\/p>\n
He added that Spain had also deployed a civil guard aircraft to help patrol the coasts of Senegal and Mauritania, in addition to 38 troops equipped with four boats, a helicopter and 13 all-terrain vehicles that carry out joint patrol missions with Senegalese forces.<\/p>\n
The journey from Senegal to Spain’s Canary Islands is one of the deadliest\u00a0but numerous accidents\u00a0have fail to deter people from attempting the voyage.<\/p>\n
“We must stop his unscrupulous actions that put the lives of thousands of vulnerable people at risk,” Grande-Marlaska said during a joint press conference.<\/p>\n
Both ministers said they would increase efforts to combat illegal immigration and avoid more deaths at sea, but did not announce additional measures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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