Migrants shift to old, risky route to Spain and Europe
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January 19, 2018
MADRID (AP) — The smugglers took Rodriguez Tankeu's savings and disappeared, leaving the 25-year-old bewildered near Tripoli, the Libyan capital. The former car mechanic headed to Algeria, where he saw, one by one, all the spots on engine-powered boats go to wealthier migrants.
Broke, tired and desperate, he moved further west.
"Morocco was my last hope," he says. "It was either making it to Europe or giving up for once and for all."
Algeria and Morocco are increasingly popular points of departure for economic migrants and asylum-seekers whose arrivals more than doubled last year along the haz...
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