- 2d ago
Canary Islands logs 6,665 migrant arrivals in nine days, 48 boats at El Hierro
The Canary Islands government counted 6,665 people on 66 boats from 1 to 9 November, a 1,355% rise on the same period of 2025, as El Hierro's council declared a social emergency on Friday 6 November.
- Sep 3
Over 80 feared dead as Spanish rescuers save 44 from migrant boat adrift off Canary Islands
Spanish maritime rescuers brought 44 survivors and five bodies ashore at Arguineguin after a wooden vessel from Gambia drifted for nearly a month, with survivors reporting more than 80 fellow passengers died during the crossing.
- Jun 12
Pope Leo XIV closes Spain trip with Canary Islands migrant plea: 'We are all migrants'
On the last day of a Spanish visit focused on migration, Pope Leo XIV met hundreds of migrants on Tenerife and called for a 'reciprocal path' of integration while denouncing the indifference that turns sea routes into cemeteries.
- Jun 11
Pope Leone XIV at Canaries migrant dock: 'Human dignity has no passport' and Europe must examine its conscience
From the Arguineguín dock in Gran Canaria, Pope Leone XIV cast a floral wreath into the Atlantic and called for legal migration routes, an end to trafficking, and a European 'examination of conscience' over maritime deaths.
