On 14 August 2025, the High Seas Patrol Vessel (PHM) Niani intercepted a canoe carrying 147 migrants bound for Europe, around 100 kilometres off the coast. Among them were 125 men and 22 women (including 10 minors and two babies). The recorded nationalities were as follows: 83 Senegalese, 29 Gambians, 23 Guineans (Conakry), nine Malians, […]
Seven individuals have been arrested for migrant smuggling off the coast of Sangomar. The National Division for Combating Migrant Smuggling and Related Practices (DNLT) has charged them with criminal conspiracy, attempted migrant smuggling by sea and endangering the lives of others. The arrests followed the Senegalese Navy’s seizure of a canoe used for illegal emigration […]
A training workshop on Legal and Administrative Assistance for Returning Migrants was held for agents of the Reception, Orientation, and Follow-up Office (BAOS), which operates in the Senegalese regions of Tambacounda, Ziguinchor, Kolda, Sédhiou, and Kédougou. Supported by the PROMIS project, the session took place in Tambacounda on 19–20 August 2025 and was led jointly […]
On Tuesday 19 August, the Senegalese Navy conducted a major rescue operation, saving 133 irregular migrants travelling in a traditional fishing boat, locally called a ‘pirogue’. The boat was intercepted at approximately 92 kilometres off the coast of Dakar by the patrol vessel Cayor, which received crucial support from an Air Force maritime patrol aircraft. […]
From the deserts of Niger to the Atlantic coast of West Africa and on to Europe’s shores, the routes taken by migrants remain perilous. In recent weeks, hundreds of people have been rescued in Niger, Senegal, the English Channel and Portugal. Yet many others continue to perish anonymously in the desert or at sea. Confronted […]
The Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) revealed, on 17 May, in a new report and documentary the direct and profound impact of overfishing and illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing on Senegal’s fishing industry. Declining fish stocks are driving a rise in forced migration to Europe via the world’s deadliest migration route, which claimed over 3,000 […]
