The BBC and EL Pais report that the head of the regional government in the Canary Islands, Adan Martin Menis, has called on both the Spanish government and the EU to take further emergency action on the immigration crisis affecting the islands. He described how 16,400 African migrants had arrived so far this year, more than three times the total for the whole of 2005 and added “We're on red alert and can't carry on taking responsibility for accommodation and medical care of immigrants”. He complained that the FRONTEX mission sponsored by the EU to try and curb the flow of immigration in the Mediterranean was too “weak” and “came too late”.

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