According to information disclosed on May 6 by the reception, orientation and follow -up office of the Senegalese from the outside and migrants (BAOS), between January and April 2025, 591 Senegalese were repatriated “voluntarily”.
The majority of them were men (506), but the authorities also identified 51 women as well as 34 children. Emigration candidates illegally resided in transit countries located in North Africa or in the Sahel. Since Tunisia, Morocco, Niger, Egypt, Algeria, Chad, Mauritania and Libya, they then hoped to be able to win Europe.
According to Khadim Bamba Fall, the national coordinator of the BAOS, the migrants returned expressed their wish to return to Senegal. He also indicated that additional initiatives are currently taken to facilitate the return of people in comparable circumstances.
-The increasingly repressive policies against illegal migrants, the criminalization of NGOs helping them as well as the rise in xenophobic and racist feeling contribute to the brutal degradation of their living conditions in transit countries, reports infomigrants.
In addition, the strengthening of collaboration agreements between transit nations and the European Union (EU) has intensified the surveillance of the African coasts while also affecting those of Europe, in order to restrict the boats of boats.
More and more migrants are now choosing the “voluntary return” to their country of origin. In October 2024, more than 200 Senegalese had already been repatriated “voluntarily” from Morocco within the framework of a common agreement deployed between the two countries to facilitate the “voluntary return” of irregular migrants.
