El Hierro, a small island in the Atlantic Ocean, is Europe's latest frontline in the struggle to cut irregular migration.

Spain needs around 250,000 registered foreign workers a year to maintain its welfare state, Migration Minister Elma Saiz said ...

More than 160 migrants have reached the Canary Islands in just one day. Increasing numbers of people are making the perilous trip from the coast of northwest Africa to the Canary Islands ...

MADRID (Reuters) - Five bodies were found floating in the sea on Sunday after the inflatable boat they were travelling in punctured around 90 km (56 miles) off the Spanish island of Lanzarote, in the ...

The Associated Press had rare access to a night patrol by Senegal's navy as it scanned the sea for a growing number of ...

On a tiny Spanish archipelago, newcomers from Africa - survivors of a journey that’s killed hundreds of others – wait in ...

The flow of irregular migration from North Africa to Spain continues to grow, according to the Spanish Coast Guard on Monday. Some 483 migrants, including women and children, in eight boats arrived in ...

GRAN CANARIA, Spain, Oct 20 (Reuters ... Some 32,878 migrants have taken the perilous route in boats from West Africa to the Canary Islands between January and Oct. 15, according to government ...

"Spain is increasingly aware that Africa's present and future ... Twenty-one-year-old Ahmed Qarrab, who traveled to the Canary Islands from Morocco, offered a message to others considering ...