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

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius will ... Mauritius, which sits about 2,000 kilometers (1,240 miles) off Africa’s east coast, is recognized as one of the ...

Mauritius, an island nation situated in the southwestern Indian Ocean and off the eastern coast of Africa, is a melting pot of diverse cultures. (Photo: Xinhua) This photo taken with a mobile ...

Coming from the Middle East, Africa or ... southern Greek island of Crete, off which on Tuesday 19 people were picked up from a small boat by a passing cargo ship. The Greek coast guard said ...

Selina Denman charts the story of this part of East Africa--where African, Arab and European influences merge--as well as her own chapter in it.

His cousin paid around C$1,000 to a people trafficker to secure a spot for Amodou in a small boat headed to the Canary Islands ... and was found empty off the coast of Brazil in April.

The island is situated off the southeast coast of Africa and consists of numerous peripheral islands. It's a hotspot for biodiversity as around 90 percent of its plants and animals cannot be found ...

Greece’s coast guard says the bodies of four people have been recovered from the sea just off the coast of the eastern Aegean island of Rhodes ...