Migrant boat capsizes off Cape Verde, over 60 feared dead – Senegal ministry
Dakar, Senegal Reuters More than 60 people are feared dead after a boat carrying mostly Senegalese migrants capsized off the coast of Cape Verde in the Atlantic Ocean. The boat left Senegal on 10th July with 101 passengers on board, and 38 people were rescued on Tuesday, Senegal’s foreign ministry said in a statement late […]
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More than 3,000 people lost in sea crossings to Europe in 2021 – UN
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters More than 3,000 refugees, migrants and asylum seekers died or went missing last year while trying to reach Europe via Mediterranean and Atlantic sea routes, a UN refugee agency report showed on Friday, reporting the highest toll in recent years. Thousands of Africans take long, perilous journeys to Europe each year often traversing […]
Storm Eunice batters Europe, killing at least nine
London, UKReuters An Atlantic storm battered northwestern European on Friday with record winds of up to 122 miles per hour, killing at least nine people, knocking out power for tens of thousands and shredding the roof of London’s O2 arena. Storm Eunice, which brewed in the central Atlantic and was spun up from the Azores […]
Goodbye, Columbus: Vikings crossed the Atlantic 1,000 years ago
Washington DC, USReuters Long before Columbus crossed the Atlantic, eight timber-framed buildings covered in sod stood on a terrace above a peat bog and stream at the northern tip of Canada’s island of Newfoundland, evidence that the Vikings had reached the New World first. But precisely when the Vikings journeyed to establish the L’Anse aux […]