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foul smell spreading through South Africa’s city of Cape Town is being blamed BBC World Service
on a ship carrying livestock that arrived at the port on Sunday night.
Residents The number of African migrants who arrived in Mexico last year was nine times higher than the year before, according to official statistics.
of the city and its suburbs have been questioning the source of the odour. Figures released by Mexico's Interior Department at the weekend show that almost 60,000 migrants arrived from Africa in 2023 - a huge jump from the previous year when 6,500 made the journey.
The Dana Graber Ladek,
City of Cape Town said on its X account that it was aware of the smell, acknowledging head of mission at the UN's International Organisation of Migration in
that it was coming from the ship. Mexico, told the BBC's Newsday programme that most of these migrants come from Guinea, Angola, Mauritania, Senegal, Nigeria and Cameroon.
The She said: "People leave their countries for many different reasons and it tends to be complex, anything from generalised violence to extreme poverty to political upheaval - and of course there's also the effect of climate change and natrual disasters."
city’s official in charge of water and sanitation, Zahid Badroodien, "The grand majority" of African migrants that arrived in Mexico in 2023 do not wish to build lives there and are looking to cross the border into the United States, Ms Graber Ladek said.
said the ship carrying cattle was due to leave the port on Monday night. She added that many migrants pay smugglers to facilate their journey to Mexico, and the trip can cost from around $10,000 to $20,000.
He
had earlier said that the “sewage smell blanketing parts of the city”
was not linked to a Koeberg sewer pump station in the city.
Some South Africans on social media have expressed concern about the conditions of the livestock on the ship, with others wondering how people on the vessel might be coping.
The
incident comes as ships carrying livestock bound for Western countries are being diverted
through South Africa’s coast because of recent attacks in the Red Sea,
according to local reports.
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