After a boat carrying the dead bodies of 14 men appeared near the island of Tobago, AP reporters spent nearly two years identifying 33 of the 43 men from West African nations believed to have boarded it. Read the takeaways from the investigation here:
In 2021, at least seven boats appearing to be from Northwest Africa washed up in the Caribbean and in Brazil. All carried dead bodies.
Arrivals on the Atlantic route jumped from 2,687 in 2019 to more than 22,000 two years later, according to Spain’s Interior Ministry. May Sow had been desperate for news of her nephew, Alassane Sow of Mali, ever since he had gone missing from the coast of Mauritania in January 2021. From her home in Orléans, France, she searched the internet and called people across Europe and Africa looking for him.Alassane dreamt of joining his French relatives in Europe, hoping for a better life. But getting a visa seemed impossible. His mother had tried unsuccessfully eight times.
She had all but given up hope of finding Alassane when an AP journalist reached out to her in November 2021. For the next 1½ years, the AP traced back Alassane’s steps and discovered through a cell phone found in Tobago that Alassane had boarded this boat. His aunt then recognized a piece of clothing found on one of the bodies recovered from the vessel.But only a DNA test would confirm this was Alassane’s body and allow the family to bury him.
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