{"id":44083,"date":"2024-12-27T12:51:12","date_gmt":"2024-12-27T12:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=44083"},"modified":"2024-12-27T12:51:17","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T12:51:17","slug":"at-least-69-dead-after-boat-sinks-in-morocco-waters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=44083","title":{"rendered":"At least 69 dead after boat sinks in Morocco waters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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At least 69 people, including 25 Malians, have died after a boat bound for Spain from West Africa capsized off Morocco, Mali’s authorities have confirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The “makeshift boat” was carrying about 80 people, but only 11 people survived, said a statement from the Ministry of Malians Abroad. At least nine of the survivors are from Mali.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The boat capsized last week, but the ministry confirmed the incident on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A crisis unit has been dispatched to monitor the situation, it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mali has suffered years of jihadist and separatist violence – resulting in military coups in 2020 and 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The junta promised to hold elections to return to civilian rule by March 2024, but this has not happened yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The instability in the country, due to widespread jihadist insurgency, has made much of the north and east ungovernable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unemployment and the effects of climate change on farming have also forced many to seek greener pastures in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the crossing is perilous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to a Spanish rights charity, Caminando Fronteras,<\/a> more than 10,000 people have died attempting to reach Spain by boat from Africa this year, making it one of the world’s most dangerous migrant routes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The organisation found there was an average of 30 deaths a day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The migration route, which spans from the Atlantic coasts of Mauritania and Morocco to Spain, is regarded as one of the most dangerous in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many of those taking this dangerous route come from sub-Saharan Africa, escaping poverty and conflict in their home countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Morocco is just eight nautical miles (14km) from Spain’s mainland at its closest point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BBC: At least 69 people, including 25 Malians, have died after a boat bound for Spain from West Africa capsized off Morocco, Mali’s authorities have confirmed. The “makeshift boat” was carrying about 80 people, but only 11 people survived, said a statement from the Ministry of Malians Abroad. At least nine of the survivors are from Mali. The boat capsized last week, but the ministry confirmed the incident on Thursday. A crisis unit has been dispatched to monitor the situation, it said. Mali has suffered years of jihadist and separatist violence – resulting in military coups in 2020 and 2021…. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44084,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44085,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44083\/revisions\/44085"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}