Posted on 03/06/2006 11:39:14 AM PST by ncountylee
NOUAKCHOTT, March 6 (Reuters) - More than 40 African migrants heading for Spain's Canary Islands drowned at the weekend when their boats sank off the West African coast, Mauritania's Red Crescent organisation said on Monday.
More than 40 other migrants were rescued in the incidents, which took place in waters north of the Mauritanian coastal city of Nouadhibou, off the coasts of Western Sahara and Morocco, a Red Crescent spokesman said.
"There were two shipwrecks from Saturday to Sunday," Ahmedou Ould Haye told Reuters, speaking by telephone from Nouadhibou, Mauritania's second city and biggest port.
Most of the Africans involved in the two incidents -- the latest in a series of maritime tragedies involving migrants from the world's poorest continent trying to reach Europe -- came from Mali, Guinea Bissau and Gambia. Others came from Ivory Coast, Nigeria and Mauritania.
Haye said an Italian ship was looking on Monday for another vessel carrying migrants which had put out a distress signal in Mauritanian waters, but there were no details of how many were on board.
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These countries range from 45% to 100% Muslim. Odds are that civilization has improved.
Odds are that civilization has improved.
That's a pretty ugly thing to say! I was gonna mention something about when are these people going to learn how to SWIM!
Maybe you should "improve" FR by leaving.
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