21/12/2014
For How Long Will African Migrants Continue to Die At Sea?
[The Star]Last week, Spanish authorities rescued yet another migrant full boat off the Mediterranean coast. It has almost stopped being big news since the Lampedusa tragedy of 2013 in which more than 360 migrants mostly of Eritrean, Somali and Ghanaian origin who originated from Libya, lost their lives as their ill-equipped boat caught fire and capsized. The account is that the occupants of the ill-fated boat were trying to catch the attention of nearby boats when the entire boat was engulfed by fire from a lit blan...
