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Migrants toss dozens of dead overboard| Mauritania: Dozens of migrants trying to reach Europe spent 3 weeks at sea and threw 50 bodies overboard after the vessel lost power | |
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| Aug.3 |
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Boat capsizes, 50 drowned, 100 missing| Sierra Leone: 7 bodies had so far been recovered from the sea at the estuary of the Great Scarcies River | |
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| Mar.29 |
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At least 60 dead after boat capsizes Guinea: An open fishing boat, with 120 people on board, had capsized off the coast of Guinea. 36 people survived
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| Feb.12 |
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Hundreds of stranded migrants go ashore Mauritania: 400 African and Asian migrants began disembarking from a battered freighter intercepted by the Spanish coastguard
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| Feb.7 |
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Hundreds in limbo on disabled freighter Mauritania: Hundreds of Asian and African migrants spent their 6th day aboard as Spain tried to convince African countries to take them in
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Ship 'sinks in storm'. 600 missing
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| Dec.19 |
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Migrants' ordeal: Hallucinations, big waves Senegal: Young men tell of a disastrous 12-day boat voyage with little food, 3 capsizings, motor breakdowns, and 22-foot waves
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| Dec.18 |
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Migrant boat capsized twice; 80 die| Senegal: A fishing boat crowded with more than 100 African migrants was sailing to Canary Islands, drifting for about 10 days | | |
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| Apr.10 |
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120 feared dead as boat capsizes| Ghana: A local ferry was travelling from Afram Plains to Rwora Rwora on the lake Volta | |
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| Mar.8 |
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 300 African migrants drown a month Mauritania: More than 1,000 Africans have died in the past 4 months while trying to sail from Mauritania to Canary Islands
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| Mar.6 |
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40 migrants drown off Africa Mauritania: The migrants heading for Spain's Canary Islands drowned when their boats sank
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Hopes dim for ferry missing
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| Dec.19 |
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Capsized migrant boat 'kills 30' Mauritania: Rescuers plucked 14 people from the hull of a motorised canoe, which overturned in strong winds
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| Oct.12 |
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150 feared missing as ferry sinks Nigeria: A ferry hit a bridge in eastern Nigeria and capsized
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| Feb.4 |
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Ferry death toll revised by 700 Senegal: More than 1,800 people died in the September sinking, the prime minister said
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| Oct.14 |
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Navy officer sacked over ferry disaster Senegal: Senegal dismissed Colonel Kombo over last month's disaster in which nearly 1,000 people drowned
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| Oct.3 |
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Ferry tragedy: Overcrowding blamed Senegal: Overloading was the key cause of the disaster which killed almost 1,000 people, military investigators said
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| Oct.1 |
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President: 'Ferry errors' Senegal: Abdoulaye Wade believed the sinking resulted from human negligence. There will be prosecutions, he said
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| Sep.30 |
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Ferry victims screamed for hours Senegal: Countless victims of disaster survived for hours in the overturned MS Joola
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| Sep.29 |
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Disaster ferry 'carried 1,000' Senegal: 64 survivors have been found and everyone else is feared to be dead
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Ferry tragedy hopes fade Senegal: Hundreds of people are still missing. 400 people drowned and the death toll could rise further
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| Sep.28 |
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Ferry families demand answers Senegal: Angry family members of people feared dead have protested in front of the presidential palace in Dakar
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| Sep.27 |
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1,800 people died as ferry sinks| Senegal: The Atlantic Ocean ferry Joola carrying almost 800 passengers and crew has sunk in a fierce storm | | |
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U.S. sub, Japanese trawler collide
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Kursk submarine went down
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