Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani have agreed on a series of joint measures to tackle rising irregular migration. They also announced a plan for Mauritanians to fill labor gaps in Spain.
At least 300 people, mostly from Senegal and Gambia, were on board when their boat capsized off the coast of Mauritania. At least 25 people have died and some 150 are missing.
West African countries including Senegal and Gambia are experiencing an exodus of migrants trying to reach Europe. Senegalese authorities say they have stopped boats carrying more than 500 people bound for the Canary Islands this month.
Authorities in the Canary Islands have come in for criticism over the detention of a young Senegalese migrant in an adult prison. A UN committee says the youth should have been given the benefit of the doubt and treated as a minor.
A Gambian teenager tells InfoMigrants that police have carried out repeated raids on the camp where he lives after being driven out of Tunisia's second city, Sfax.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said that it aided the voluntary return of 392 migrants from Tunisia to their countries of origin last week. The repatriations were carried out in cooperation with the Tunisian government and the local chapter of the Red Crescent.
Kebbis Secka was a young Gambian migrant who arrived in Italy in 2016. Soon after receiving his residency card, he signed up to be an organ donor. When he died in December, he passed on the gift of a healthy life to others.
Migration might take center-stage at the Academy Awards in March next year, as director Matteo Garrone's movie "Io Capitano" has just been announced as being in the running for an Oscar. However, the people on whose life the movie is based have to continue to seek justice for false accusations.
A total of 145 migrants reached the southern Italian island of Lampedusa in just a few hours on Monday. Meanwhile, a Tunisian citizen has been arrested on charges of aiding and abetting illegal immigration.
At least seven people are reported to have died in the Atlantic Ocean during a 15-day journey from Gambia to the Canary Islands. Meanwhile the number of migrants reaching the archipelago is at an all-time high.
At least four people died and hundreds of others were intercepted off Spain's Canary Islands. The arrival of several boats in recent days has pushed the number reaching the Atlantic archipelago to a new record high.
Moumi, a 20-year-old migrant from Gambia, reached the island of Lampedusa after four days at sea. "I am tired but alive", he said on Friday, September 15.