Start of a voluntary repatriation operation of 400 Senegalese migrants from Morocco this Friday

At least 400 Senegalese staying in the migrant reception centers of Argoub and Bir-Gandouz, in southern Morocco, will return to Senegal as part of a voluntary repatriation operation planned to start this Friday.

“A voluntary return operation for compatriots seeking irregular emigration currently hosted in the centers of Argoub and Bir-Gandouz in the south of Morocco will take place this weekend and next week. 400 people have registered on the lists,” said the APS, citing a diplomatic source.

Ten buses, each capable of carrying 40 passengers, will leave Morocco on the basis of a planned program of concerts with the Moroccan authorities. This is how a first convoy of three buses must leave the Shereef kingdom this Friday.

Other departures are planned for Tuesday November 3 and Thursday November 5 while another repatriation operation is being prepared for the second week of the same month.

Three canoes carrying at least 500 passengers, including 300 Senegalese, were intercepted in Moroccan territorial waters by the Royal Navy between October 19 and 25, reported the same source.

She points out the presence of many women and children, including babies, among the candidates for emigration from the Gambian and Senegalese coasts.

A diplomatic source confirms that the arrival of large numbers of migrants poses reception problems in the centers of southern Morocco where 800 people mainly from Senegal, Gambia, Mali and the Republic of Guinea have been identified in recent days.

APS