Walking Borders CEO Helena Maleno said that of the 86 people, 36 migrants were rescued while 44 Pakistanis drowned in the sea. The migrant boat was stranded in the ocean for 13 days

Over 40 Pakistanis are feared dead after a boat capsized near West Africa's coast. Departing from Mauritania, they aimed to reach Europe. Pakistani President Zardari calls for stronger anti-trafficking measures.

As many as 50 migrants, many of them Pakistanis, may have drowned in the latest deadly wreck involving people trying to make the crossing from West Africa to Spain's Canary Islands, migrant rights group Walking Borders said on Thursday.

Border officials documented a decline in irregular migration to Europe last year, primarily due to a decrease in crossings along two key routes. However, numbers are increasing in other areas, partly driven by an influx of migrants from Bangladesh,

More than 40 Pakistanis are feared drowned after their boat capsized off West Africa's Atlantic coast, a primary migrant route to Europe. Pakistan's leaders expressed grief, urging stricter anti-trafficking measures.

Societe Generale , France's third-biggest listed lender, has agreed to sell its subsidiary in Mauritania to a consortium led by asset manager Enko Capital, according to a statement sent to Reuters on Friday.

The Pakistani government has launched an extensive crackdown on human traffickers, though hundreds of Pakistanis continue to perish annually while attempting to reach Europe. In 2023, an overcrowded boat carrying Pakistani migrants sank off Greece, killing an estimated 350 people in one of the deadliest incidents in the Mediterranean Sea.

As many as 50 migrants attempting to reach Spain by boat from West Africa are feared to have drowned, according to the migrant rights group Walking

And while many extreme-right politicians in Europe have wavered in their support for Ukraine in its war against Russia, Meloni has offered fulsome backing for Kyiv – even convincing her fellow rightwinger, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán, to agree to a €50bn aid package to the war-torn country.

Moroccan authorities rescued 36 people from the boat that had left Mauritania on January 2 with 86 migrants, including 66 Pakistanis, on board.

More than 40 Pakistanis are feared drowned after a migrant boat capsized off West Africa, highlighting the dangers of human trafficking.

In 2024, an average of nearly two migrant boats reached the Canary Islands each day. 692 boats in all, carried more than 46,000 people that year, mostly from Mauritania, Senegal and Morocco. The majority arrive to the tiny,