A planned trade corridor linking the landlocked Sahel to the Atlantic is at the heart of an ambitious Moroccan project to ...

At least 89 Europe-bound migrants die after boat capsizes off Mauritania - Boat had sailed from near Senegalese-Gambia border ...

Large sea anchors could be used to drag water under a bold plan to keep the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation ...

The boat capsized off the coast, in the Atlantic Ocean, about 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) from the country’s southwest city of Ndiago, the state-run news organization said.

A recent satellite photo captured a giant comma-shaped cloud of "Saharan dust" being blown above the Atlantic Ocean. The hazy ...

Coastguards in Mauritania have recovered 89 bodies of migrants from a boat that capsized in the Atlantic Ocean on Monday. Nine people - including a five-year-old girl - were rescued, but dozens ...

The next named storm is Francine. No tropical cyclone activity is expected, but experts were monitoring 3 tropical waves in Atlantic ...

The majority last year departed from Mauritania, which is at least 762 kilometres from the closest Canary Island, El Hierro. Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry said several survivors, including ...

‘Xenophobic’: Neighbours outraged over Mauritania’s mass migrant pushback. Governments of Senegal and Mali are angry at how their nationals are being treated in the northwest African nation.

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, May 30 (EFE).- Over a year has passed since Brazilian authorities discovered a 50-feet-long migrant raft from Mauritania with nine heavily decomposing bodies ...