Morocco has stopped 45,015 people from illegally migrating to Europe since January and busted 177 migrant trafficking gangs, Morocco's state news agency MAP reported on Friday, citing interior ...

Some 126 people were pushed so closely together on a wooden fishing boat that they could barely move. Eating, sleeping and ...

The Canary Islands ... to reach the Canary Islands and had got lost. Their boat was typical of the wooden fishing boats often used to transport illegal migrants from West Africa towards Europe.

Although the general idea is that the Ottomans and Barbary corsairs limited their naval raids to the Mediterranean, this is a ...

A woman has died following a shark attack in the Atlantic Ocean near the Canary Islands, a Spanish archipelago off the northwest coast of Africa. The 31-year-old German national lost a leg in the ...

Spain's Canary Islands on Wednesday ... At their closest point, the islands lie 100 kilometres (62 miles) off the coast of North Africa, the shortest route running between the coastal town of Tarfaya ...

Alfonso Cabello, spokesperson for the Government of the Canary Islands, stressed the urgent need for EU involvement in the crisis, following a 126% increase in small boats arriving from Africa ...

The EU says the aim of the scheme is to "strengthen the safeguarding of our external border through the Canary Islands," which has seen a surge in migrant arrivals from West Africa. It follows a ...