Shipwreck off Algeria: 27 young Guineans missing
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Africaguinée
Twenty-seven young Guineans who were trying to reach Europe from the Algerian coast are missing after their boat sank, according to their families. Three of the thirty passengers are said to have been rescued; the family of Karim Baldé, in Conakry, say they were informed of the death by the organiser of the trip, according to Africaguinee.
Twenty-seven young Guineans are missing after their boat sank off Algeria, according to information received by their relatives in Conakry. The boat's thirty passengers are said to have all been Guineans; three people are said to have been rescued, Africaguinée reports.
Among the missing is Karim Baldé, whose elder sister Ramatoulaye Baldé recounted on Saturday 7 November 2026, in the Bantounka 2 district of the commune of Lambanyi, her last exchanges with him. "On 12 October, he had called me to tell me they were about to put out to sea," she said, adding that the family had learned the news the day before from the young man who had organised her brother's trip, then from his friends. The family is calling on the Guinean authorities to shed light on what happened to the passengers.
