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 NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AP) - Migrants from elsewhere in Africa are overwhelming Mauritania, setting out from the country on an often deadly voyage to Europe, the prime minister said Thursday in asking the West for help in sealing his borders.
More than 1,000 Africans have died in the past four months while trying to sail in small wooden boats from Mauritania to Spain's faraway Canary Islands, according to a branch office of the Red Crescent.
Prime Minister Sidi Mohamed Ould Boubacar said his vast, impoverished west African nation was helpless against the flood of would-be migrants.
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