( ) -q-20- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “period last year.” Spain’s prime minister has embarked on a three-day tour of West Africa. [CutID: <Cuts> SPAIN-AFRICA-house-q-TUEam.mp3 Time: 20s Title: SPAIN-AFRICA-house-q-TUEam Out-cue: period last year] TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. Sánchez begins his visit to Mauritania before continuing south to Gambia and Senegal. The three coastal nations […]
Audio
Spain’s leader begins West Africa tour in Mauritania
( ) -q-20- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “period last year.”
Spain’s prime minister has embarked on a three-day tour of West Africa.
[CutID: <Cuts> SPAIN-AFRICA-house-q-TUEam.mp3
Time: 20s
Title: SPAIN-AFRICA-house-q-TUEam
Out-cue: period last year]
TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. Sánchez begins his visit to Mauritania before continuing south to Gambia and Senegal. The three coastal nations have become the main departure points used by smugglers to launch overcrowded boats.
—————————
VERBATIM: Pedro Sanchez’s trip comes as the European nation struggled to contain the number of people making the dangerous Atlantic voyage by boat to the Canary Islands. Spain’s Interior Ministry says that more than 22,000 people have disembarked on the islands since January. That’s more than double the number for the same period last year.