Dramatic - Morocco - Military holds immigrants in several Western Sahara barracks
Africans' buses make for Mauritania as ministers convene migration summit
Dakhla, Morocco -El Pais (Madrid,Spain) /iht.com/AFP -11 Oct 2005: -- The 1,000 African immigrants in Moroccan custody who have been transported deep into Western Sahara over the past two days are now being held in several military barracks in the region, according to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR)... Many of the barracks are close to the Mauritanian border, where authorities told Agence France Press yesterday that they would only allow illegal immigrants to enter in transit for Senegal or Mali. Other African migrants were being held in Tangier and in Oujda, which is close to the Algerian border... Friday, who said the Moroccan military refused to give the 70 passengers food and handed out only a little water, had been reading road signs to journalists so that they could pinpoint his location. His last call came from near Dakhla, about 1,700 kilometers south of Tangier. "They are taking us to Mauritania, they are going to abandon us again," he said. "I pray to God that someone helps us. We just passed a huge water deposit. Tell them to stop, we can't take this anymore... there's an unconscious child here... Do something."
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