TRAGEDIES ON THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA via thisdaylive
No fewer than 40 people drowned on Tuesday off the coast of Libya in the latest boat disaster on the Mediterranean Sea. We do not know how many Nigerians were victims of this tragedy that came just weeks after a shipwreck claimed 150 lives in the worst single incident on the Sea this year and we may never know. But we owe them a duty of care. “We must not simply accept these tragedies as inevitable,” said Vincent Cochetel, UNHCR Special Envoy for the Central Mediterranean.
In the past one decade, hundreds of thousands of able-bodied young men and women on a daily basis embark on perilous missions across the Mediterranean Sea. Nigeria accounts for majority of these desperate travellers, mostly from sub-Saharan Africa. Sadly, only small numbers eventually reach their destinations where they face huge disappointments and frustrations.
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