Mauritania-Conflict-Mauritania intensifies border enforcement, sharply reducing migrant departures from its Atlantic coast
Mauritanian authorities reduced Atlantic migrant departures toward the Canary Islands by 72 percent in the third quarter of 2024 compared with the same period last year, according to consolidated coastal guard logs and interception records published this week. The decline follows a coordinated escalation in maritime enforcement along the country’s 1,100-kilometer Atlantic coastline, supported by €45 million in European Union migration management funding that reached full operational capacity in February.
