As the Senegalese authorities and the European Union try to clamp down on the flow of Africans arriving in Spain’s Canary Islands, a new departure point has opened up – Gambia – just 100km further south of the centre of the Senegalese migrant trade.
Senegal has become the centre in the past 12 months, after first Morocco and then Mauritania tightened their own borders in recent years.
Under the cover of an inky night sky, more than 100 men in small boats make their way over the coastal horizon from the small Gambian fishing village of Tanjeh every fortnight.