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![[West Africa] Illegal migrants head from the shores of West Africa to the Spanish Canary Islands with hopes of making it to the European mainland, west Africa, August 15 2006. When the Senegalese government repatriated 99 illegal migrants from the Spanis](https://assets.thenewhumanitarian.org/s3fs-public/styles/responsive_large_2x/public/images/200610303.jpg.webp?itok=PNAYQbw5 "Les migrants clandestins partent des côtes ouest africaines à destination des îles espagnoles des Canaries dans l'espoir de gagner le continent européen.")
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