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Several images shared in WhatsApp group in Senegal over the past few months show large numbers of young people leaving Senegal to make a dangerous attempt to reach the Canary Islands by pirogue (Screengrab of videos sent to the France 24 Observers team).

How young Senegalese are making desperate journeys to Spain’s Canary Islands

A fire broke out on a canoe off the coast of Senegal on October 23. (Screengrab from social media)

Deadly boat fire highlights the dangerous migration route from Senegal to the Canary Islands

Several people in Algeria reached out to our team at FRANCE 24 Observers to let us know that there had been a new wave of arrests in Oran and that some migrants had been deported to Niger. (These are screengrabs and images sent to the Observers.)

Algerian authorities crack down on migrants, deporting many to Niger

The image on the left shows a scorched home in Cabo Delgado. The image on the right shows people fleeing Mocimboa da Praia, which was attacked by insurgents on June 27. These photos were published by the collaborative media site Pinnacle News.

Thousands flee Islamist insurgents in northern Mozambique

Left: The bus station in San Antonio del Táchira (photo by Yurkys Rosario). Right: The "Los Caracas" holiday resort. (photo by Neo Mendoza). These sites are both being used to house Venezuelans who have returned to their country during the pandemic.

How Venezuela is managing the flood of expats returning in the middle of the pandemic

The image on the left shows Neo Mendoza on the road in Peru. The image on the right shows Eduardo Azuaje’s group on the road in Colombia.

By bus or on foot: the long road home for Venezuelans stuck abroad during the pandemic

Lockdown orders have had a devastating effect on migrants from sub-Saharan Africa who were kicked out of Algeria and have been living in camps in the border town of Arlit, Niger.

Migrants in Niger protest seemingly endless quarantine

Screengrabs of a video and photos taken in Pazarkule on the border between Greece and Turkey.

Video: The daily life of migrants trapped at the Turkey-Greece border

Screengrabs of videos showing incidents that occurred in the Turkish cities of Samsun and Kahramanmaras.

Wave of violence breaks out against Syrians in Turkey

In amateur videos taken by demonstrators on 25 February, riot police protect the future construction site of the detention centre.

'A giant prison for migrants': Lesbos residents fight the construction of a new detention centre

Screengrabs of a video posted on social media in Cameroon that shows a man being deported from Turkey wrapped in plastic film. The woman on the right is wearing the uniform of a Turkish Airlines flight attendant.

‘They wrapped me up like a package’: A Cameroonian’s harrowing deportation from Turkey

Screenshot of the Moroccan taekwondo champion's video taken during his journey to the Canary Islands.

Moroccan taekwondo champ throws medals overboard during illegal sea-crossing

Left: a scene from the film "The Immigrant", written and directed by Mamadou Baillo Bah. Right: a screening of the film in Dinguiraye in August 2019.

‘The Immigrant’ tells story of Guinean writer-director’s Libyan inferno

The Refugee Learning Center, Cisarua, Indonesia.

Breaking the limbo: Displaced people in Indonesia take education into their own hands

Trapped in southern Mexico, hundreds of African migrants protest for right to continue their journey north.

African migrants trapped in Mexico protest for right to travel to USA

Screengrab of a video filmed on August 3, 2019 by an Ivorian migrant who says that he and his group were abandoned in the desert, near the Libyan border.

Final communication with Ivorian migrants trapped at the Tunisia-Libya border

Photos du nouveau cimetière des migrants à Zarzis, transmises à notre rédaction par Chaâla Madji.

Red Crescent volunteers in Tunisia work to bury migrants drowned at sea

A group of men ransacked Syrian-owned businesses in the Ikitelli neighborhood in Istanbul on June 29, 2019.

Rumor about a sexual assault sparks a wave of violence against Syrians in Turkey

Screenshots from videos taken by Antonio V., our Angolan Observer, during migrants' journey through Panama.

Migrants face perilous passage through Panama in hopes of reaching US

This photo has been shared more than 24,000 times since January 23, 2019. Turns out, it’s a fake.

Were Hungarian authorities really using pigs to deter Muslims at the border?

Photo shared by our Observer.

Dozens of Ethiopians drown on forgotten migrant route off shores of Djibouti

Mourners surround the coffin of Falikou Coulibaly during a vigil at his home Dec. 26, 2018. (Photo: Ange Serisoka)

Ivorian man who spoke out against racist violence in Tunisia is murdered

This photo of Palestinian migrants packed into a Thai police van has been widely shared on Facebook by Palestinian NGOs over the last few weeks.

Palestinian and Syrian migrants swept up in wave of arrests in Thailand

A group of migrants held a rare protest in Libya (screengrab from a video posted to Facebook on August 12).

'Help us get out of this hell!': Migrants hold rare protest in Libya

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