Horrifying photographs showing pregnant women and children among dead migrants found in a rubber dinghy has shone a light on the grim reality of the desperate scramble to cross the Mediterranean into Europe.

A Spanish charity found 167 migrants alive and 13 dead in yet another rescue operation involving rubber boats crossing the deadly stretch of sea.
More than 2,200 migrants have died trying to reach Europe across the Mediterranean so far this year according to the International Organization for Migration - meaning on average 10 people a day die making the journey.
The latest grim salvation mission was 15 miles off the coast of Sabratha in Libya and the migrants on board were said to be sub-Saharan and the failed journey resulted in more than a dozen deaths.
As some migrants' corpses lie naked in the middle of the dinghy, others can be seen in the pictures sitting around in life-jackets waiting to be rescued.
The European Union has extended the mandate of its naval operation targeting migrant smuggling in the Mediterranean until the end of 2018 and tasked it with monitoring illegal oil trafficking from Libya.
Operation Sophia, which has naval ships and aircraft monitoring the Mediterranean, aims to disrupt smuggling networks and train Libya's coastguard as a way of stemming the flow of desperate migrants attempting the risky crossing from Libya to Italy in unseaworthy boats.

It's unto obodo oyinbo matter

.this is as result of bad leadership in Africa

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This life is miserable for peoples of poor African nations. They would prefer to be enslaved by the whites willingly instead of remaining free men and die of hunger in their motherland.

Look at that first pix very well... is that not Black Face wearing singlet?!

ShyCypher:
Look at that first pix very well... is that not Black Face wearing singlet?!

not Black face its 9ice...befor he released "kongoso...

If not for all these greedy leaders that milk this country dry,y would someone risk his/her life trying to enter another man's country looking for greeners pasture that either u die in the desert or Mediterranean ocean

divinehand2003:
This life is miserable for peoples of poor African nations. They would prefer to be enslaved by the whites willingly instead of remaining free men and die of hunger in their motherland.

Poverty is a conscious choice made by most Africans .

How do you teach a grown person to focus ,be diligent ,work hard and put the mental fortutude required to overcome their many challenges?

Look at our towns and see dirty places cuz no one wants to do the hard work,look at our dependence on primary product... bcuz few have the IQ to venture into higher margin knowledge economy ,look at our lack of maintenance culture with our homes looking rundown and look at ow many buildings collapse bcuz we like to cut corners?

Are these the faults of the white man or our own cultural shortcomings that make us poor? Yes ,i believe Africans want to be poor when i look at all our surroundings it all says we'd rather take the road of least resistance.

Its normal since Libya don scatter.

who collected their clothes. I know that place must be so cold.