Eight missing after Senegal sinking

Eight people are reported missing after a Senegalese cargo ship capsized off the coast of neighbouring Mauritania.

Eleven members of the crew of the President Maguette Diack were rescued and taken to hospital in the Senegalese capital, Dakar.

The sinking is the latest in a series of shipwrecks in or near Senegalese waters in recent days.

Four people drowned when an Italian fishing boat sank in the port of Dakar on Friday, while hours before six fishermen died when their boat capsized off Mbour, 140km (85 miles) southeast of Dakar.

Last September, more than 1,200 people lost their lives when the Senegalese ferry, the Joola, sank off the Gambia.