Spotlight.Where the canoes leave from

Four thousand missing. The migration route from West Africa to the Canary Islands and Spain is currently the deadliest. Hundreds of them set off aboard wooden canoes for a journey that lasts up to two weeks and often turns into a shipwreck. With Valerio Cataldi Spotlight traveled to Senegal, one of the main departure countries for canoes, to understand what pushes so many people to risk such probable death.

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