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It reported that over 4,500 deaths or disappearances on this route were catalogued since 2014, with 2023 having its second deadliest year on record with over 1,950 deaths. At least 76 boats containing 6,130 living migrants arrived in Mauritania from June 2024 to the time of the disaster, and 190 migrants were reported dead or missing. [1] [2]
NOUAKCHOTT (Reuters) -Fifteen people were killed and more than 150 were missing after a boat carrying 300 passengers capsized near Mauritania's capital Nouakchott on Monday, the International ...
In Mauritania, families have even set up a “national commission” charged with looking for the disappeared migrants. They have been following news of the boat found in Brazil anxiously ...
Four migrants were found dead and 64 were rescued when a boat from Mauritania reached Spain's Canary Islands after a dangerous Atlantic journey from West Africa, Spain’s Maritime Rescue Service ...
At least 15 people have died and more than 195 are missing after a boat carrying migrants capsized near Mauritania’s capital Nouakchott.
The wave of Mauritanians immigrants began in the 1960s. At that time, France requested immigrants from West Africa (Mauritania, Senegal, Mali, Guinea). A lot of male workers came to France, followed by their wives and children. A few thousands of Mauritanians came in France to work in the automotive industry.
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In early 1989, tensions arose between Mauritania and Senegal due to conflicts over water resources in the Sénégal River valley. As a result, white Mauritanian Moors in the Senegalese capital Dakar became the targets of communal violence, while in Mauritania itself, black Mauritanians came under suspicion as "Senegalese fifth columnists". [2]