Would-Be Migrants Deported to Mali
About 140 grim-faced Malians, their only luggage blankets or plastic bags containing bread and milk, boarded a chartered plane as the government of Morocco deported them for trying to use the North African country as a springboard to Europe.
The plane left Oujda, in northeastern Morocco, for Bamako, the capital of the West African nation of Mali.
Moroccan authorities began deporting sub-Saharan Africans on Monday.
Many of them were picked up recently after trying to rush razor-wire fences around the Spanish enclaves of Melilla and Ceuta on the northern Moroccan coast.
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