This number, according to UN Children’s Fund, doubled the number compared to the same period in 2022.
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Over 300 migrants are stranded on the Mediterranean sea, after several European countries shut their ports against migrants in a bid to curtail the spread of coronavirus, said the group in a statement issued on Wednesday.
The International Organisation for Migration in Libya on Thursday said a shipwreck is believed to have taken place in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Libya, and dozens feared dead,
Efe Alimi, an Edo State indigene, revealed how he had participated in the mass burial of 5,300 bodies in a single day on the Libyan shore, decomposing remains of those who had drowned while attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Europe
The President while speaking when he addressed Nigerians in the Diaspora, vowed to reduce the number of Nigerians heading for Europe illegally through the Sahara Desert and the Mediterranean Sea by providing basic social amenities such as education, healthcare and food security at home
The statement said: “IOM, the UN Migration Agency, reports that 160,067 migrants and refugees entered Europe by sea on November 19, 2017, with about 75 per cent arriving in Italy and the remainder divided between Greece, Cyprus and Spain.
Dabiri-Erewa described the deaths of these young Nigerians in the latest boat mishap on the Mediterranean sea as “unfortunate, tragic and preventable”
Nearly 600 migrants have died so far this year trying to reach Italy from North Africa, the International Migration Organization estimates
Flavio Di Giacomo, an IOM spokesman in Rome, said 103 people were presumed to have died in a shipreck late on Wednesday, from which 27 survivors were rescued and seven bodies were recovered
Fatim Jawara, 19, died on October 27 during an attempt to cross by boat from Libya to Italy, the athlete’s cousin, Ablie Jobarteh, told newsmen
A further 415 people perished on the eastern Mediterranean passage separating Turkey and Greece, while 62 lost their lives crossing the Western Mediterranean and Western African routes
Medical charity, MSF ,said because the baby was born in international waters, his nationality was still under debate