By Mada JuradoA Spanish bishop has denounced the drama of migrants on the Canary Islands, urging that “we must treat them as people, help them and take them in”. Police were acting on instructions from the Spanish national government, which is struggling to deal with the high number of migrants from north Africa, which is just 100km away from the Canary Islands. But the migrants evicted from the camp Tuesday were left “without food, drink or [a] destination to go to”, one local government official denounced. Large numbers of African migrants are arriving on the Canary Islands of Spain. Those figures make the Canary Islands route even more perilous for migrants than that of better-known path through the central Mediterranean, from Libya to Malta and Italy.

Source: The North Africa Journal November 19, 2020 12:11 UTC