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 pre-alert situation for adverse maritime phenomena declared yesterday by the General Directorate of Emergencies of the Government of the Canary Islands across the entire archipelago remains in force according to the information provided by the State Meteorological Agency (AEMET).

A photo of a baby born at sea during a perilous crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by migrants from Africa has been made public by Spain’s maritime rescue service.

Spain’s Canary Islands video game industry got a major shot in the arm this week as local developer Quantum Box Games, a studio based in Gran Canaria, secured a significant Japanese investment.

A baby girl was born on a packed migrant boat headed for Spain's Lanzarote island in the Canary Islands. Authorities said the baby and her mother were in good condition.

Spain's Canary Islands feel "abandoned" as irregular migrant arrivals smash records and the political class lacks "solidarity", the region's leader said in an interview published on Monday.

A baby girl, who was born on a packed migrant dinghy headed for Spain's Lanzarote island in the Canaries, was being treated in hospital along with her mother and both were in good condition, medical and regional government authorities said on Thursday.

A baby girl was born on a migrant dinghy en route to Spain's Canary Islands this week, Spain's rescue service said on Wednesday, publishing a photograph of the newborn, its mother and dozens of other migrants on the crowded boat.

In 2024, there were 692 packed, wooden boats that reached the Atlantic Archipelago off the west coast of mainland Europe, carrying in total more than 47,000 people. Most came to the tiny, western-most island of El Hierro where emergency services struggle to help the new arrivals.

Over 61,000 people reached Spain in irregular fashion via sea last year, according to the Interior Ministry. Some 46,000 of those landed in the Canary Islands, 95 kilometers (59 miles) from Morocco.

“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.”

As many as 50 migrants, many of them Pakistanis, may have drowned in the latest deadly wreck involving people trying to make the crossing from West Africa to Spain's Canary Islands, migrant rights group Walking Borders said on Thursday.