Recently, officers from the Spanish National Police on the island of Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands arrested a man suspected of belonging to a criminal organization involved in facilitating ...

Spanish police said the operation had "dismantled one of the largest criminal organisations dedicated to cocaine trafficking". The force also said it had identified a local network in the Canary ...

Seven migrant women and children die as a boat coming from Africa capsizes off the Canary Islands. The incident reflects ongoing risks in the Atlantic migration path.

President Asif Ali Zardari expressed grief over the deaths and stressed the need for strict measures to curb human trafficking. Zardari's comments in a statement late Thursday came after a Spain ...

Human trafficking will never end if our families are still isolated and vulnerable. Even though there is a wide array of resources available for victims, sometimes what they need most is love from ...

A major cocaine smuggling operation that used a network of speedboats to transport drugs from South America to the Canary Islands has been taken down, police have said. Almost four tonnes of ...

The Canary Islands Government has declared a state of emergency over worries about supplies amid a widespread power cut that crippled Spain and Portugal on Monday ...

Human trafficking and climate change are among the reasons for this displacement. In 2024, almost 47,000 migrants reached the Canary Islands, according to data from Spain's interior ministry.

Figures from the Spanish Interior Ministry show that in 2023, at least 14,535 people arrived on El Hierro in 154 boats. That's equivalent to an average of 40 people daily on an island with an area ...

Spanish police said the operation had "dismantled one of the largest criminal organisations dedicated to cocaine trafficking". The force also said it had identified a local network in the Canary ...