Al-Hijrah: “Our boat ran out of fuel and we were stuck in the middle of the sea”

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Dudu Diop (centre) has returned to Gaudin with his family after disappearing for a week while trying to get to the Canary Islands.

  • author, Nicola Nekos
  • stock, BBC World Service

“In the middle of the night, around 2 a.m., about 140 of us boarded the boat.”

Doudou Diop, a 30-year-old Senegalese national, risked everything on a perilous boat journey to Europe, 1,700 km (1,056 miles) from Senegal to Spain’s Canary Islands.

The Atlantic seaway made headlines after a non-governmental organization said three boats carrying at least 300 people had disappeared since late June.

I traveled to my starting point, a remote fishing village in southern Senegal called Gavontin, to investigate.

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