Spain’s marine rescue service on Thursday said that more than 550 migrants have reached its Canary Islands in boats over the past two days.

“Fifty people have died on a boat headed for the Canary Islands, 44 of whom were Pakistani,” CEO of Caminando Fronteras / Walking Borders Helena Maleno, wrote on X. “They spent 13 agonising days at sea without rescuers reaching them.”

Moroccan authorities rescued 36 people from the boat that had left Mauritania on January 2 with 86 migrants, including 66 Pakistanis, on board.

The Pakistan Foreign Office has issued a list of 21 Pakistani people who survived a boat disaster off the coast of Morocco

Fernando Clavijo met Home Affairs Commissioner Magnus Brunner in Strasbourg. “When you close one door, migrants exit from another.” View on euronews

Says several Pakistani survivors are in a camp near port of Dakhla; NGO chief says 44 Pakistanis among those presumed to have drowned.

Survivors of the Morocco boat tragedy have strongly rejected the notion of an accident that took lives of 21 Pakistanis, instead describing the incident as a "massacre" orchestrated by human smugglers.

In 2024, an average of nearly two migrant boats reached the Canary Islands each day. 692 boats in all carried more than 46,000 people that year, mostly from Mauritania, Senegal and Morocco. The majority arrive to the tiny,

The embassy in Morocco reported that a boat carrying 80 passengers, including several Pakistanis, capsized near the Dakhla port in Morocco, having set off from Mauritania as the survivors, including Pakistanis, are currently residing in a camp near Dakhla.

At least 69 migrants, including 44 Pakistanis, died after a boat capsized off Morocco’s coast while attempting to reach Spain. The tragedy underscores the deadly risks of the Atlantic migration route,

With more and more tourists swamping its many countries, causing friction with locals as overtourism bites, it’s never been more important to blend in.

Mogán, located in Gran Canaria, will bring in an innovative tourist tax, marking the first time such a measure has been proposed in the country.