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Message: [QUOTE="Queen, post: 85987, member: 27"] Over 250 migrants are feared dead after a boat vanished from The Gambia, with zero survivors found anywhere. The boat and its passengers [LIST] [*]Ebrima, a Gambia-based reporter, confirmed 250+ aboard the vessel. [*]Carried nationals from seven different West African countries. [*]Gambians made up the bulk of the passenger list at 164. [*]29 of those on board were women and children. [/LIST] Where it all went wrong [LIST] [*]Departed from Nuimi Jinack, The Gambia, on December 5, 2025. [*]Senegal, Mauritania, Morocco, and Cape Verde turned up nothing. [*]Canary Islands searches confirmed it never hit Spanish shores. [*]Authorities have ruled out any chance of survivors existing. [/LIST] Grief back home in The Gambia [LIST] [*]Families in Nuimi Jinack are wrecked, losing two or three relatives each. [*]Some households got hit multiple times on the same vessel. [*]Passengers came from Gambia, Senegal, Guinea-Conakry, Mali, and other countries. [*]Grief is spreading across multiple West African nations right now. [/LIST] This is not a one-off tragedy [LIST] [*]A vessel carrying 190+ people from The Gambia vanished on November 17, 2025. [*]Kartong saw a deadly boat sinking back on October 19, 2014. [*]Another departure from Jambur on October 14, 2024, ended with zero survivors. [*]West African sea routes have a long, brutal history of deaths. [/LIST] What Ebrima had to say [LIST] [*]Ebrima called out the continuing danger on these perilous routes. [*]Migrants keep risking everything for better opportunities abroad. [*]Prayers were offered for those lost at sea. [*]These journeys remain a deadly gamble for West African migrants. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

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