Mbour, Senegal, Sept 3, 2026 (AFP) - Aminata Boye, Senegalese voice for missing migrant families

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2026-09-03

Aminata Boye turned her grief into action: After her eldest son vanished trying to migrate in a rickety ocean canoe, she became a pillar of strength for those in Senegal suffering similar loss. When AFP visited Boye earlier this year, she was making one of her regular visits to the many bereaved families in the Tefees neighbourhood of Mbour, a town on the west African country's coast. Roughly one in three households in Tefees has had a member die......

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