1. Shipwrecked immigrants hold their children after disembarking from a rescue vessel in the port of Lesbos, Greece. Record numbers of migrants are dying in the Mediterranean this year amid the largest wave of mass migration since the second world war.


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2. In another photograph from Lesbos by Angelos
Tzortzinis, a migrant rests at the port as he waits
to collect tickets for a ferry going to Piraeus in
Athens. So far this year, nearly 1,000 asylum
seekers have drowned, including 450 this week in
at least three separate incidents. It puts the death
toll about 20 times higher than the equivalent
figure in 2014, which was itself a record year.

*smh* jes risking ur life 4 nothing ,cant u just remain in f**king country

3. A man holds up his hands as a South African riot officer raids the kitchen of a hostel in Benoni.
Local residents are suspected of having acted
against foreign-owned shops in the area,
throwing stones at the trucks bringing in stock
and forcing them to shut down. South African
president Jacob Zuma appealed for calm as an
eruption of xenophobic violence spread to
Johannesburg, raising fears that the country’s
dire economic troubles could spark widespread
unrest.

4. Rev Jeremy Rutledge and his son look at a
memorial built on the site where Walter Scott was
killed by a police officer in North Charleston,
South Carolina. Scott was shot by officer Michael
Slager, who now faces murder charges. Slager is
also one of three patrolmen named in a lawsuit
filed by Julius Wilson, who says he was shot with
stun gun while lying face down on the pavement.

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5. An Asiana Airlines aircraft, which skidded off the
runway, is photographed at Hiroshima airport, Japan. The aircraft struck a communications tower as it came in to land, leaving dozens of passengers with minor injuries.

6. An African migrant sits on a concrete block in the
harbour. Perlamo, Italy.

Sile12:
more coming...

how much more is coming and the weekend is over.

Trailblazer1:

sile12..powerful pics...keep em coming

Keep them coming

8. Children emerge from the remains of their home which was damaged during a reported airstrike by
government forces. Aleppo, Syria.

9. Children look out of a tent in a refugee camp for
displaced people fleeing the recent a wave of
xenophobic violence against immigrants, South African.

EUROBOMBER:

10. A young child sits at a transit camp in West cliff sports ground in Chatsworth south of Durban where over a
thousand of foreign nationals have been placed since
the awake of Xenophobic attacks on them around the
KwaZulu Natal Province.

11. Hundreds of people participate in a peace march after
anti-immigrant violence flared in Durban.

12. People take cover from a stun grenade and tear gas after skirmish between locals and foreign nationals as thousands of people take part in the "peace march" against xenophobia in Durban South Africa.

13. South African men dance and sing while carrying clubs as they call for foreign shop owners to leave the area after xenophobic violence in the area in Actonville, Johannesburg.



14. Police officers advance to enter mens hostels after xenophobic violence in the area overnight forced foreign shop owners to close their shops for fear of attack in Actonville, Johannesburg.

15. Migrants stand on the deck of the Italian Navy ship
"Driade" prior to being disembarked in Messina's port, April 2015.

16. A migrant is helped from a coast guard boat in the
Sicilian harbour of Palermo.


17. An Italian coast guard vessel with a helicopter during the search and rescue operation in the Mediterranean.


18. End of Italian navy operation to rescue asylum seekers at sea likely to result in more deaths, human rights groups warns.

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An immigrant crawls on the beach after his arrival on a makeshift boat on the Gran Tarajal beach in Spain's Canary Island of Fuerteventura on May 5, 2006.

Victims of Flight MH17.

25. Photo of a Disabled Mother and her Child Going out to Vote.
They would do anything to get the right leader Photographer Bayo Omoboriowo captured this image in President Elect Buhari's hometown Daura.

26. Foreign nationals gesture after clashes broke out between a group of locals and police in Durban on April 14 ,2015 in ongoing violence against foreign nationals in Durban, South Africa.

27. This young lad, was attacked for being a foreigner. The little boy was rescued by other foreigners who stood up to fight back.

tunezmedia.com/2015/04/18/touching-photo-of-a-child-victim-of-xenophobic-attack/

so touching

Everybody hates everybody else.

This is a period of anti-migration. What can we do to solve this issue?

Ilekeh:
Everybody hates everybody else.

This is a period of anti-migration. What can we do to solve this issue?

Africans lynching Africans, I think people needs to be educated. We survive on one another, so people needs to learn to embrace peace and each other.

Even within our country, we re practicing such on ourselves.

What about our jungle justice? (some of the victims were even innocent but because they were not given the chance to explain or talk)

Tribal, political crisis?

This last election we killed ourselves, destroyed our properties.

We all need to be enlightened

28. Over a thousand mostly African foreign nationals have fled their homes in black townships around the eastern port city of Durban since xenophobic attacks and looting erupted two weeks ago. They are currently housed in makeshift camps, as police and politicians attempt to restore order.