Mauritanie: 141 migrants dont 88 Sénégalais dans un bateau à la dérive secourus
One hundred and forty-one migrants, from several West African countries and whose clandestine boat was adrift, were rescued Sunday off the coast of Mauritania, AFP learned from official sources.
"These are 141 candidates for illegal immigration, including 88 Senegalese, 44 Gambians (including 17 women and two children), four Guineans and two Malians," the Mauritanian Ministry of Fisheries said in a statement.
The rescue took place off the coast of the city of Nouadhibou (western Mauritania).
"It was a boat whose disoriented occupants no longer knew where to go and whose movement was spotted by a patrol at sea," a coast guard official in Nouadhibou told AFP.
These exiles have been "taken care of by the competent services", the Ministry of Fisheries indicated.
Mauritania, a mostly desert country in West Africa bordered by more than 700 km of coastline on the Atlantic, has in recent years become a starting point for many migrants from countries on the continent who attempt to reach Europe by sea at the risk of their lives, in search of a better future.
In August, at least 69 bodies were recovered and dozens of people were reported missing after a boat carrying migrants capsized off the coast of Mauritania. The boat, which had departed from Gambia, overturned.
At the end of July, Mauritanian authorities indicated that they had rescued several dozen West African migrants off their coast after their boat, which had left Guinea eleven days earlier, broke down.
Tens of thousands of migrants have lost their lives in recent years trying to reach Europe from Africa via the Spanish Canary Islands, aboard often overcrowded boats, forced to migrate clandestinely because of increasingly restrictive visa policies in European countries.
Nearly 47,000 irregular arrivals were recorded in the Canary Islands archipelago in 2024, a record for the second consecutive year, as increased controls in the Mediterranean Sea pushed exiles to attempt the Atlantic route.
Strong ocean currents and poorly maintained boats make the long journey to the Canary Islands particularly deadly.
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