DAKAR: The Senegalese gendarmerie said it had intercepted nearly 100 illegal migrants over the weekend, the majority of whom were Malian and bound for Europe.
There were 93 illegal migrants “apprehended” between Friday and Saturday during a “series of operations” carried out at different sites along the West African nation´s coastal Thies and Saint-Louis regions, the gendarmerie said late on Saturday on X.
The gendarmerie said the migrants consisted of 83 Malians, seven people from the Gambia and three from Mauritania, countries all neighbouring Senegal. Their arrest was part of the “fight against irregular emigration”, it added.