Morocco ends evacuation of 1600 emigrants
Morocco announced that the air bridge which its installed as from Wajda town northeast of the country ended on Friday after the evacuation of 1600 illegal emigrants from Mali and Senegal.
One official in Wajfa police said that the last flight boarded more than 102 from Mali took off on Friday from Wajda airport towards Mali's capital Bamako, noting that the two ambassadors of Senegal and Gambia and one diplomat from Mali headed on Friday at noon to Galmim city south of Rabat where a new air bridge presumed to have started to return some 1000 illegal emigrants to their country.
He added that some 30 Senegalese and 10 citizens from the Ivory Coast and one from Ghana are in Wajda police center and will be transferred by air to Wajda.
On the other hand, thousands of Africans who intends to emigrate to Europe via Spain are waiting between Mali and Algeria of fears that they will not be able to continue their flight after the borders between Algeria and Morocco have become practically blocked.
