Spanish Prime Minister travels to Africa to try to resolve migration issue

Overloaded boats. More than a hundred migrants arrived in the Canary Islands (Spain) on Tuesday afternoon, August 27. In total, there have been 23,000 since the beginning of the year, twice as many as last year. To resolve this crisis, the Spanish Prime Minister went to Gambia and Mauritania. “We must show humanity in managing immigration and combating the mafias that traffic in human beings”Pedro Sanchez said. His solution: set quotas to meet labor needs and provide aid to dissuade the 200,000 Malian refugees who fled the Sahel from taking to the sea.

Italy is hit by deadly bad weather. Torrents of mud have formed in a matter of seconds. Campania, the region of Naples, has been hit by torrential rain. A mother and her son have disappeared in a mudslide. Since Tuesday, the search has continued, in vain.

Thousands of dead fish in Greece. An ecological disaster is taking place in the Volos region, located northeast of Athens. Freshwater fish are washing up on the seashore, in front of stunned tourists. “We have started the operation of cleaning the seafront, the beaches, the rocks, everywhere where there are dead fish”explained Achilleas Beos, mayor of Volos. This phenomenon is a consequence of the floods last spring. A lake has re-formed and its backflow is pushing the fish towards the sea, where the salt water is fatal to them.