Travel agencies are not allowed to sell airline tickets from Dakar to Nicaragua, according to local authorities. Key transit points for the route, the airports in Madrid and Casablanca, required Senegalese passport holders to have transit permits earlier this year.
The campaign follows 20,231 arrests of Senegalese migrants by US police for unauthorized border crossings between July and December.
That’s ten times more arrests than what US Customs and Border Protection reported for the final half of 2022.
The road is closed because it was idle for too long.”
He claims that in addition to paying £2,600 to smugglers who transported them throughout Central America, he also spent £10,200 of his sister’s loan and ten years’ worth of money for the plane ticket to Nicaragua.
