{"id":1161,"date":"2006-10-18T13:53:19","date_gmt":"2006-10-18T20:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2006-10-18T13:53:19","modified_gmt":"2006-10-18T20:53:19","slug":"mothers-fight-migration-in-senegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/18\/mothers-fight-migration-in-senegal\/","title":{"rendered":"Mothers Fight Migration in Senegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/10\/18\/AR2006101801155_pf.html\"><i>Associated Press<\/i>;<br \/>\nWednesday, October 18, 2006; 3:19 PM<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><br \/>\nBy HEIDI VOGT<br \/>\nThe Associated Press<\/p>\n<p>THIAROYE, Senegal &#8212; At a funeral in this Senegalese fishing town, mothers wept for their sons _ dozens of whom drowned when the wooden craft they hoped to take to Europe was caught in a storm. Then the mothers decided to stop it from happening again.<\/p>\n<p>The group from that March funeral has grown to 357 women _ all having lost a son, husband or cousin who set out on a perilous voyage hoping for a better life.<\/p>\n<p>Yayi Bayam Diouf, who lost her only son, is the head of Thiaroye&#8217;s women&#8217;s association. The 48-year-old woman said members have persuaded residents to monitor the nearby coast and report any suspicious activity.<\/p>\n<p>They also hold meetings with young men to persuade them not to leave, and work to support the mothers and wives whose caretakers have died in the crossing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Instead of just staying put and crying and thinking about our children, we are fighting the migration,&#8221; Diouf said.<\/p>\n<p>Spanish officials say more than 23,000 illegal migrants have reached the Canary Islands since the beginning of 2006 _ more than five times the number in 2005. A Canary Islands official said last month that more than 500 bodies have been recovered in the waters between Africa and the Canary Islands so far this year.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associated Press; Wednesday, October 18, 2006; 3:19 PM: By HEIDI VOGT The Associated Press THIAROYE, Senegal &#8212; At a funeral in this Senegalese fishing town, mothers wept for their sons _ dozens of whom drowned when the wooden craft they hoped to take to Europe was caught in a storm. Then the mothers decided to stop it from happening again. The group from that March funeral has grown to 357 women _ all having lost a son, husband or cousin&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,65,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-africa","category-foreign-affairs","category-senegal","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-iJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}