Elizabeth Ohene in the BBC:
...at the northern-most tip, desperate young Africans are drowning in the Mediterranean whilst trying to get to Europe.More here
In the past two weeks about a thousand people have drowned in the seas between North Africa and the southern coast of Italy.
The European Union has had an emergency meeting on the matter and announced measures they intend to take. The measures seem to amount to: "We will not open our doors to African migrants, no matter how many of them drown trying to enter Europe." Nothing more.
The Pope has had something to say and human rights activists around Europe have all made pronouncements on the humanitarian disaster that is taking place off the Libyan coast.
Everybody has had something to say except the African leaders whose citizens constitute the majority of those dying trying to get into Europe.