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Monday 23 noveMber 2020
Spain's foreign minister visits Senegal to discuss migration

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — that a government is not
Spain's foreign minister sufficiently prepared to re-
met Sunday with Senegal's ceive a very large amount
president in the West Afri- (of people) in a very short
can country's capital Sun- period of time," she said.
day to discuss the sudden Local rights groups in Sen-
increase of Senegalese mi- egal have been protesting
grants attempting to reach the deaths of what they
the Canary Islands by boat. say are nearly 500 youths
Spanish Foreign Minister who died at sea in recent
Arancha González Laya weeks attempting to reach
met with President Macky European soil.
Sall in Dakar to discuss mi- The International Organiza-
gration and border coop- tion for Migration's Missing
eration between Spain, Migrants project said it has
the European Union and only been able to confirm
Senegal. The country has the death or disappear-
become a major point of ance of 160 Senegalese
migrant departures even nationals so far this year,
though it is around 950 miles but admits their records
(1,500 kilometers) away. may be incomplete be-
More than 18,000 people cause of the lack of infor-
fleeing poverty, violence Migrants stand at the Arguineguin port in Gran Canaria island, Spain, after being rescued in the mation collected on the
or other circumstances Atlantic Ocean by emergency workers on Thursday, Oct. 19, 2020. migration route.
at home have arrived in Associated Press Moise Diar Diegane Sarr,
Spain's Canary Islands this secretary of state to the
year, a 1,000% increase "COVID is destroying Afri- The Spanish minister re- unsanitary conditions. minister of foreign affairs
from the same period in can economies, as it has buffed accusations of poor Human rights groups have and Senegalese abroad,
2019, and over 500 have also had a huge impact management and prepa- been warning about the said that bilateral coop-
died in the attempt. Around on European economies, ration by Spain in dealing reopening of the Atlantic eration was discussed be-
half of those arrivals — and we knew that one of the with the migrant arrivals, re- route to the Canary Islands tween the two countries.
most of the deaths — have consequences of this pan- sulting in thousands of them since late 2019, when arriv- He participated in the
been in the past 30 days, demic was going to be sleeping under tents on the als began increasing slow- meeting between Spain's
a spike that has strained an increase in migration," dock of Arguineguin in the ly. foreign minister and Sene-
resources on the archipel- González Laya told report- island of Gran Canaria for "It is very difficult to accuse galese counterpart Aïssata
ago. ers after the meeting. days, sometimes weeks, in a government or to say Tall Sall.q

Ethiopia warns civilians of 'no mercy' in Tigray offensive

heavy artillery." hideouts and using Mekele has expelled an analyst
He accused the Tigray residents as human shields. with the International Crisis
leaders of hiding among For days, Abiy's govern- Group, William Davison. The
the population of the city ment has asserted it was government hasn't given a
of roughly a half-million marching to Mekele in a fi- formal reason, the organi-
people and warned civil- nal push to end the deadly zation said, but "ultimately,
ians to "steer away" from conflict that erupted on there is little doubt that the
them. Nov. 4 between the federal reason for his deportation
But "treating a whole city government and the heav- relates to the current tense
as a military target would ily armed Tigray regional situation in the country and
not only unlawful, it could government. The TPLF the authorities' increasing
also be considered a form dominated Ethiopia's ruling sensitivity to points of view
of collective punishment," coalition for a quarter cen- that do not hew to its line."
Human Rights Watch re- tury before Abiy took office It added: "It is noteworthy
searcher Laetitia Bader and introduced dramatic that on the same day Mr.
tweeted Sunday. political reforms and side- Davison was expelled, au-
Tigray refugees who fled the conflict in the Ethiopia’s Tigray ride
a boat on the banks of the Tekeze River on the Sudan-Ethiopia "In other words, war crimes," lined TPLF leaders. thorities also issued warning
border, in Hamdayet, eastern Sudan, Saturday, Nov. 21, 2020. former U.S. national security Now, each side regards letters to the news agency
Associated Press adviser Susan Rice tweet- each other as illegal, com- Reuters' Ethiopia corre-
ed. plicating international spondent and to the BBC
By CARA ANNA late international law. Ethiopia's Nobel Peace pleas for dialogue amid and Deutsche Welle sta-
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — "From now on, the fight- Prize-winning prime min- worries that one of Africa's tions."
Ethiopia's military is warning ing will be a tank battle," ister, Abiy Ahmed, in a most powerful and popu- Meanwhile, a vast humani-
civilians in the besieged Ti- spokesman Col. Dejene new statement is giving lous nations could fracture tarian crisis is unfolding,
gray regional capital that Tsegaye said late Saturday, the leaders of the Tigray and destabilize the strate- with the United Nations say-
there will be "no mercy" asserting that the army was People's Liberation Front 72 gic Horn of Africa. ing about 2 million people
if they don't "save them- marching on the Tigray hours to surrender, saying With communications and in Tigray urgently need help
selves" before a final of- capital, Mekele, and would that "you are at a point of transport to the Tigray re- as food, fuel, medical and
fensive to flush out defiant encircle it with tanks. "Our no return." He accused the gion almost completely other supplies run desper-
regional leaders — a threat people in Mekele should TPLF leaders of using reli- severed, it's difficult to ver- ately short.
that Human Rights Watch be notified that they should gious sites, hotels, schools ify the warring sides' claims. Two refugee crises are
on Sunday said could vio- protect themselves from "and even cemeteries" as And Ethiopia's government growing.q