The Latest Breaking News from Senegal

Some took parts of wooden seats for buoyancy after watching friends die on drifting vessel

In tonight's edition: Leaders of the BRICS group of emerging economies meet in Johannesburg as divisions between the founding members about the bloc's future appear to emerge. Thirty-eight Senegalese nationals are repatriated after a migrant boat drifts off Cape Verde. And Zimbabwe gears up for presidential elections amid economic hardship.

Senegalese authorities say 37 migrants who survived after being rescued off the coast of Cape Verde as they tried to reach Spain's Canary Islands have been brought back home

Countries worldwide are scrambling to secure rice after a partial ban on exports by India cut global supplies by roughly a fifth

Senegalese opposition figure Ousmane Sonko is in intensive care 19 days into a political hunger strike

Walking Borders said it told authorities in four countries on 20 July about vessel with more than 100 asylum seekers onboard

Detained Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko has been removed from the country's electoral roll in a move denounced by his political party as "inhumane persecution". Sonko, who is in hospital on hunger strike, was transferred to intensive care after his condition weakened overnight, the party added.

Over 60 people have been feared dead and 38 others have been rescued after a boat capsized off Cape Verde, Al Jazeera reported citing International Organization for Migration (IOM) authorities. Read further on Dynamite news:

More that 60 migrants headed for Spain are missing and feared dead after coast guards off the Atlantic island of Cape Verde rescued 38 people whose boat was found drifting.

An estimated 56 people are missing at sea and presumed dead

Thirty-eight survivors were rescued near Cape Verde, 620 kilometres off the coast of West Africa, on Tuesday