Africa migrants thrown overboard
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The UN says 66 Africans are dead or missing after being forced overboard by traffickers near Yemen.
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MEXICO CITY - The bodies of two dozen people washed ashore yesterday in southern Mexico after emergency officials received reports that a boat carrying Central American migrants capsized in the Pacific. Officials were searching for more victims off San Francisco del Mar, west of Mexico's border with Guatemala. Officials said they believed 26 people were aboard the small boat, which ...
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TUNISâA ship carrying illegal immigrants to Italy sank off Tunisia, killing at least 22 people and leaving another 42 missing, news reports said yesterday, sharpening the debate in Italy over how to deal with hundreds of people trying to slip into
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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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More than 100 Somali and Ethiopian  migrants drowned when a smugglers' boat capsized off Yemen  earlier this week and 130 more are missing after they were  forced off a second ship, the United Nations said on Friday.
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Hundreds of migrants from Africa in rickety boats have landed in the last few days on Lampedusa, a tiny Italian island, and the Italian government is responding quickly and contentiously, sending most of them ...
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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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The bodies of 10 migrants from West Africa are found off the coast of Gran Canaria after their boat capsized.
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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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No sooner had Spain repatriated a group of African immigrants than overwhelmed Canary Islanders were dealing with more illegal migrants in the shape of 200 Pakistanis and Sri Lankans -- the first to arrive from Asia.
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At least 15 migrants drowned in the waters off the Italian coast in two separate incidents, including the disintegration of a boat that spilled more than 100 passengers into rough seas, reports said Sunday.
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There is a corner of the picturesque harbour at Lampedusa which is a graveyard - for the fishing boats aboard which so many migrants from North Africa have made perilous and overcrowded journeys.
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UN officials have been denied permission to check the safety of about 850 migrants deported to Libya from Italy since Friday. The Italian government is flying the migrants to Libya after hundreds landed on
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Thirteen people have perished on board a makeshift boat as they attempted a perilous voyage, in search of a new life. The victims were from Africa.
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Spain's Canary Islands can no longer cope with a huge influx of illegal migrants from Africa, officials say.
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NAIROBI, Kenya  - Powerful tsunamis that roared  across southern Asia into the Indian Ocean Sunday smashed  fishing boats and flooded low-lying areas along the east  African coast, 3,728 miles to the west.
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By Lydia Polgreen  Two dozen people were rescued and dozens more were feared dead after a boat carrying people trying to reach the Canary Islands was wrecked in northern Senegal, officials have said.