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Shipwreck kills 26 young Guineans, Conakry speaks of "hemorrhage"

Twenty-six Guinean migrants died off the coast of Senegal after their boat sank a few days ago, said the Prime Minister of Guinea-Conakry, Amadou Oury Bah, who spoke of a migratory "hemorrhage".

Shipwreck kills 26 young Guineans, Conakry speaks of "hemorrhage"
Notícias ao Minuto

16:08 - 10/05/24 por Lusa

Mundo Guiné-Conacri

"So far, we have officially registered about 26 deaths", mostly of people who left from Matam, one of the communes that make up the city of Conakry, he said.

"We currently have about 3,000 of our young people waiting to be repatriated in Niger, 1,200 in Algeria, 400 in the Arab Republic of Egypt, thousands in camps in Italy, not to mention those in the United States, whose number I do not know. It is a hemorrhage for our country", he added, referring to the multiple routes taken by migrants.

Those from Matam seem to have chosen the Atlantic route, which runs west of the African coast and should lead to Europe.

The shipwreck was reported on social networks in recent days, but the authorities had not specified the number of dead.

Relatives of the missing, speaking to an AFP correspondent this week, put the date of departure at the end of April and the tragedy at the beginning of May.

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