{"id":50315,"date":"2026-11-08T15:54:34","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T13:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=50315"},"modified":"2026-11-08T15:54:34","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T13:54:34","slug":"twenty-one-dead-after-migrant-boat-sinks-off-senegal-coast","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/twenty-one-dead-after-migrant-boat-sinks-off-senegal-coast\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty-one dead after migrant boat sinks off Senegal coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 21 people have died after a boat carrying migrants sank off \u200cthe Senegalese coast, the Interior Ministry said this Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Authorities had rescued one survivor and found 21 bodies as of Saturday evening, \u2060the Ministry said in a statement on X.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The accident occurred off Kebemer, a town about 180 km north of Dakar.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Search and rescue operations were continuing as authorities looked for possible additional survivors.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The boat was \u200ccarrying \u2060people seeking to migrate irregularly, the statement said. It did not say how many were on board.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of \u2060people have died in recent years attempting to reach Spain&#8217;s Canary Islands from West \u2060Africa, including 635 in the first five months of this \u2060year, according to migrant rights group Walking Borders.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22145,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-50315","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"At least 21 people have died after a boat carrying migrants sank off \u200cthe Senegalese coast","published_date":"2026-11-08 14:39:44","news_description":"At least 21 people have died after a boat carrying migrants sank off \u200cthe Senegalese coast","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/50315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/50315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50317,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/50315\/revisions\/50317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=50315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}