African migrant boat in disaster
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At least seven Africans are found dead in a boat off the Canary Islands and dozens may be missing.
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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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ROME Huge numbers of migrants from Africa have showed up in rickety boats on the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa in the last few days, and the government is responding quickly and contentiously, sending most of them back to Libya, almost immediately, by
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A boat delivers food and water to a ship carrying migrants, anchored off the Mauritanian coast.
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A boat carrying would-be immigrants to Italy capsized in the Mediterranean, killing at least 22 people and leaving dozens more missing.
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Floods in southern Africa have displaced  thousands of people, drowned livestock and put large numbers of  children at risk from life-threatening diseases, officials said  on Tuesday.
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African migrants whose small boat was intercepted Saturday off the coast of Sicily said eight people died during their grueling, 10-day trip, the third deadly sea journey by migrants trying to reach Italy in less than a month.
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A boat sailing to Italy sinks off Tunisia killing at least 17, as a row grows over Rome's moves to send migrants back.
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SENNAR, Sudan  - Asad Ali Fadla was sitting down to dinner with his family when a wall of water swept down his street and smashed into his compound in Sennar town on the banks of the Blue Nile in southeastern Sudan.
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Two boats carrying would-be migrants crossing the Mediterranean to Europe sank Wednesday between Italy and Libya, leaving five people dead, including a child, Italian officials said. Eleven others were missing and presumed dead.
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Hopes of finding about 50 migrants missing after their boat capsized in rough seas off Africa dimmed Friday as Spanish rescuers resumed a major air and sea search, authorities said.
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Stranded passengers from the devastated towns of Real and Infanta rush to board an outrigger boat December 6. Food and water shortage forced residents to flee to other province and Manila as roads to Real and other towns destroyed by flash floods and
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Industrial boats from Europe and elsewhere have caused major fish populations to collapse in northwest Africaâs ocean floor, crippling coastal economies, and creating a surge of illegal migrants hoping to reach Europe.
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Four sub-Saharan Africans trying to  immigrate illegally drowned 20 feet from shore Saturday at the  same Spanish beach where 33 would-be immigrants died last week,  state radio said.
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A boat loaded with Somali and Ethiopian migrants capsized in the Gulf of Aden during a treacherous night crossing in which at least 112 people died, a Yemeni official said Friday.
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The Spanish coast guard intercepted a drifting boat of would-be immigrants from Africa on Thursday and found 30 dehydrated survivors standing atop 13 bodies in what emergency service officials described as a scene of "horror."
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At least 38 African migrants are rescued after their boat capsized when a journalist with them phoned for help.