Researchers collected 14 specimens from the west African coast, including one from a market in Ghana, and confirmed the ...

Scores of migrants who swam through rough Atlantic Ocean waters to safety from a capsized boat while 58 others drowned were receiving care Thursday in Mauritania after one of the deadliest ...

At least 58 people were killed after a boat carrying dozens of migrants sank in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Mauritania, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Thursday.

Researchers from the institute Senckenberg am Meer in Wilhelmshaven, Germany, along with others from Portugal and Spain, have discovered a new species of fish named Gaidropsarus mauritanicus. The fish ...

(CNN) — At least 89 migrants died when their boat capsized off the coast of Mauritania on Monday, the Mauritanian state-run news agency reported on Thursday.

While thousands once died off Mauritania’s coast in attempts to reach the Canary Islands between 2005 and 2010, that later calmed, the statement said.

NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania — At least 58 migrants have drowned after a boat capsized off the West African nation of Mauritania and scores tried to swim through rough waters to safety, officials said.

At least 58 people were killed after a boat carrying dozens of migrants sank in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Mauritania, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Thursday.