18 Apr The Gambian Boy who Lost his Family but Found his Voice in Italy
April 2015 was the deadliest month on record for migrants crossing from Libya to Europe with an estimated 1,250 people perishing in just two accidents off Libya. NANCY PORSIA spoke to one of the survivors from that dark month in the Mediterranean’s history who gave...
04 Jul Migrants Sold for Organs if They Don’t Pay, Eritrean Smuggler Reveals
Migrants are being sold for organ harvesting if they are unable to pay for their trips across the Mediterranean, an Eritrean smuggler turned state witness revealed to Italian authorities. Nuredin Wehabrebi Atta was arrested in Italy in 2014. After exposing an elaborate transnational trafficking network, Atta became the...
29 May More than 1,000 Feared Death in Updated Death Toll – IOM
At least 1,000 migrants are now believed to have died in a series of shipwrecks that took place off Libya in the last week of May, making it the deadliest week for a year and one of the worst on record. https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=7ggx-wtIwoE The tally was revised upward by the International...