Canadian Press - NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AP) - A boat packed with West Africans trying to reach Europe collided with a fishing vessel, leaving 32 of the migrants missing and believed drowned, Mauritanian officials said Sunday.

AP - A boat packed with West Africans trying to reach Europe collided with a fishing vessel, leaving 32 of the migrants missing and believed drowned, Mauritanian officials said Sunday.

AP - African migrants desperate to escape the world's poorest continent are streaming through Mauritania to embark on a perilous ocean voyage to Europe that has already killed hundreds.

AFP - A Spanish ship picked up the bodies of 18 would-be immigrants south of the Canary Islands, as diplomatic sources said Madrid was to send officials to Mauritania to assess a growing humanitarian problem.

Andrea Moore - AHN Staff Reporter Madrid, Spain (AHN) - A Mauritanian aid official says more than 1,000 Africans have died in the past four months while trying to sail in small boats from Mauritania to Spain's Canary Islands. Ahmed Ould Haya, head of Mauritania's branch of the...