asylum, Cayuco, immigration, Mediterranean, migrants, Morocco, NGO, Oujda, patera, radio, RTE, trafficking, Zodiac
In Africa, Aid & development, Immigration & asylum, Travel on July 31, 2008 at 11:03 am
The charity’s office was clean and bare, with two pcs humming on office desks, and some generic charts on the wall. The administrator was apologetic. The director had had to leave for an urgent meeting in the capital, and wasn’t there to meet me. He didn’t know when he’d be back.
I’ve travelled 12 hours across Morocco to meet him, I said. He was sorry, the administrator said. But there was nothing he could do.
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Algeria, Cayuco, Kashmir, Mediterranean, Melilla, Migration, Morocco, Nigeria, Oujda, Spain, Zodiac
In Africa, Aid & development, Immigration & asylum on July 9, 2008 at 12:08 am
Published in the Sunday Tribune, June 8, 2008
“I struggled out of the water, into the rescue boat.
“After some minutes, they brought out my woman. She was already dead.
“Then, after some minutes, they brought out my baby. Dead too.”
Eric Onaginu paid a trafficker €2,600 to ferry himself, his wife, Pat, and their four year old daughter, Sandra, across the Mediterranean from the Moroccan port of Nador to the south coast of Spain.
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