Overview

• Madrid confirmed that five Mali-born children held at the Canarias 50 centre will fly to the peninsula on Saturday, August 16.
• An urgent meeting forced by Canary authorities also set a second transfer of ten boys and five to ten girls for August 21–22, subject to ongoing evaluations.
• These moves fulfill a March Supreme Court order requiring the central government to protect and reallocate roughly 1,070 unaccompanied minors registered in the Canary Islands’ SNAPI reception system.
• Canary officials warn that reception centres are unsustainably overcrowded following a surge in arrivals—especially from Mali via new Atlantic routes.
• The Basque government has similarly sought and begun relocating Mali-born migrants stranded in San Sebastián and Vitoria to mainland reception facilities.