Mauritania 'to let migrants land'
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Mauritania agrees to let a stricken ship carrying several hundred migrants ashore, the Spanish government says.
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Â· Murder of French family in Mauritania adds to fears  Â· Decision is dire economic blow to host countries
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Migrants coming to Britain will be forced to earn their rights under deal outlined by home secretary
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Voters in the desert nation of Mauritania went to the polls Sunday with hopes that whoever wins the first presidential election since a coup two years ago will not plunge the country back into totalitarian rule.
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An Air Mauritania passenger plane that was hijacked after it left the Mauritanian capital has landed in Spain's Canary Islands, according to Spanisn media reports.Comment
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A Mauritanian pilot made a rough landing so passengers and crew could overpower a hijacker, Spanish officials say.
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Mauritania refuses to allow a ship with migrants to dock after it broke down and a Spanish boat towed it ashore.
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The Mauritanian Red Crescent delivered a ton of emergency humanitarian aid Tuesday to hundreds of illegal immigrants stranded on a ship off the West African coast.
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Italy is urging Libya to tackle the swelling flow of illegal migrants as hundreds more land on Italian shores.
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Spain and Senegal resume the repatriation of Senegalese illegal migrants from the Canary Islands, officials say.
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MADRID, Sept. 3 -- Police caught nearly 1,200 people trying to reach the Canary Islands in overcrowded boats that set out from the West African country of Mauritania, setting a record for a weekend, officials said Sunday.
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Mauritanians began voting on Sunday to choose a president and restore civilian rule to the Saharan Islamic state after 19 months under a military junta.
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LAS PALMAS, Spain  - An Air Mauritania Boeing 737 passenger plane was hijacked on an internal flight on Thursday and flew to the Spanish Canary Islands where the hijacker was arrested, Spanish officials and media said.
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This was another huge weekend for Africans in the Canaries. More than 7,000 illegal immigrants from Africa clambered ashore these islands last year, mostly on Fuerteventura which is the closest of them to the ...
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Turisti in Mauritania, lo precisa ministero esteri francese
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Guinea-Bissau extradited five suspected members of al Qaeda to Mauritania on Saturday, a day after they were arrested in connection with the killing of four French tourists in Mauritania on Christmas Eve.
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France plans to offer financial incentives to more immigrants, especially from Africa, to return home voluntarily.