Spain's marine rescue service on Thursday said that more than 550 migrants have reached its Canary Islands in boats over the past two days.
Walking Borders CEO Helena Maleno said that of the 86 people, 36 migrants were rescued while 44 Pakistanis drowned in the sea. The migrant boat was stranded in the ocean for 13 days
Moroccan authorities rescued 36 people on Wednesday from a boat that had left Mauritania on Jan. 2 with 86 migrants ... sorrow for the victims of the latest wreck and urged Spain and Europe to act to prevent further tragedies. "The Atlantic cannot continue ...
Libya deported more than 600 men from Niger last month as North African countries — financed by the European Union to tackle migration — have ramped up expulsions of sub-Saharan Africans.
Over 40 Pakistanis are feared dead after a boat capsized near West Africa's coast. Departing from Mauritania, they aimed to reach Europe. Pakistani President Zardari calls for stronger anti-trafficking measures.
Border officials documented a decline in irregular migration to Europe last year, primarily due to a decrease in crossings along two key routes. However, numbers are increasing in other areas, partly driven by an influx of migrants from Bangladesh,
Pakistanis, lost their lives when boat carrying illegal migrants from Mauritania to Spain met with tragic accident.
Clean energy sources provided a record 47 percent of European electricity last year, powering ahead of fossil fuels. A new report from Ember, a London-based think tank, found that solar power achieved record growth to give Europe 11 percent of its electricity and overtook coal for the first time.
Pakistani authorities plans to begin surveillance of young people travelling to at least 15 countries to curb increasing human trafficking to Europe via deadly sea and land routes in Africa, Asia and the Middle East,
Rupert Murdoch’s News Group Newspapers formally apologized to Prince Harry as part of a multimillion dollar settlement over a phone-hacking scandal. The 11th-hour deal avoided what would have been weeks of damaging testimony in a trial that was just about to begin.
Pakistan said that the boat, carrying 80 passengers including some Pakistanis, had set off from Mauritania on their way to the Canary Islands.
The number of migrants entering the European Union by irregualr routes dropped overall by 38% in 2024, reaching the lowest level since 2021, the EU border agency Frontex said on Tuesday.