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NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AP) - A boat of about 200 migrants — most believed to be from Pakistan — was waiting off the Mauritanian coast Monday after the West African country refused to receive the craft intercepted by Spanish authorities.
Mauritania "is not involved with this boat or its occupants, and has refused to give permission for the boat to land," government spokesman Babah Sidi Abdallah said.
Mauritania has agreed to help in the repatriation of migrants that use the country as a launching point, but Abdallah said this boat appeared to have left from Guinea-Bissau, a country much further south along the coast.
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