Salisu Suleiman writes:
In the last one month alone, no less than 500 Africans, fleeing wars and poverty in Somalia, Eritrea, Nigeria, Sudan, Ghana, Senegal, Ethiopia and other countries drowned in the Mediterranean sea when the on the rickety boats and barely floating vessels they were sailing on caught fire, developed engine problems or simply sank in tempestuous waters.
Photograph by: Tullio M. Puglia , Getty Images
Some of the would-be migrants paid between one to two thousand US dollars to people smugglers to facilitate their passage into Europe by any means possible. Spain used to be a preferred location with migrants crossing over from Morocco. More recently, the Italian island of Lampedusa in the Mediterranean, as well as Malta, Cyprus, or any of the outlying islands of Greece have become popular destinations – any foothold into Europe would do...[continue reading]
