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More than 130 Migrants Rescued Off Mauritania

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NOUAKCHOTT: Mauritania’s navy has rescued 134 people on a boat trying to get to Spain’s Canary Islands, the military said in a statement on Sunday. The migrants — 118 men, 14 women and two children, of different nationalities — were picked up off the coast from the port city of Nouadhibou on Saturday, the statement said. It did not give their nationalities or details on their state of health. Sea routes along northwestern Africa have for years b…

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The Mauritanian army said that it had ensured the "rescue" of a boat that "included 118 men, 14 women and two children" of different nationalities.

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Migrants – including 118 men, 14 women, and 2 children of various nationalities – were rescued on October 31 in the waters off the port city of Nouadhibou, northwestern Mauritania. Spain accelerates repatriation of migrants in Ceuta. The number of migrants dead and missing on international routes has risen sharply. 11 migrants died in a shipwreck in the Mediterranean.

The Mauritanian navy carried out a rescue operation in the waters of the Canary Islands, where it rescued a boat with 134 migrants on Saturday, in the channel of the port of Nouadhibou, in the north, according to an army statement that was made known to the Agence France-Presse today.

The Mauritanian navy carried out a rescue operation in the waters of the Canary Islands, where it rescued a boat with 134 migrants on Saturday, in the channel of the port of Nouadhibou, in the north, according to a military statement that was made known to Agence France-Presse today. For years, thousands of Africans, the majority of them young, have been attempting the …

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alwiam.info broke the news in Mauritania on Saturday, October 31, 2026.
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