Algerian coastguard intercepts 45 would-be migrantsAlgerian coastguards on Sunday Sunday: see Sabbath; week. picked up 45 Algerian would-be would-be adj. Desiring, attempting, or professing to be: "Would-be home buyers will have a somewhat easier time getting loans" Wall Street Journal. migrants to Europe Europe (y  r`əp), 6th largest continent, c.4,000,000 sq mi (10,360,000 sq km) including adjacent islands (1992 est. pop. 512,000,000). at three places off the coast west of Algiers Algiers (ăljērz`), Arab. Al-Jaza'Ir, Fr. Alger (älzhā`), city (1998 pop. 1,519,570), capital of Algeria, N Algeria, on the Bay of Algiers of the Mediterranean Sea. , the APS news agency quoted them as saying.
Twenty-three were intercepted near Beni Beni (bā`nē), river, c.1,000 mi (1,600 km) long, rising in the Cordillera Real in Bolivia, flowing NE through the Andean hills. It joins with the Mamoré to form the Madeira River. Saf, 480 kilometres (300 miles) west of the capital, 15 off Mostaganem, 320 kilometres from Algiers, and seven off Tenes, 180 kilometres from the city, coastguards said. All were aged 20 to 40, they said. On Friday, coastguards picked up 23 would-be migrants including six minors off the coast of Oran, 430 kilometres west of Algiers. On September 14, the coastguards picked up 19 people when they intercepted two small boats. Potential migrants hide the boats and their supplies on shore, sometimes by burying them, until they see fit to try to sail across the Mediterranean. But the coastguard is highly active and has intercepted scores of people this year. 
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