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Nigeria: Italy - Nearly 150 Migrants Feared Dead After Boat Sinks
Daily Trust, 30 March 2017
A rubber boat packed with migrants sank in the Mediterranean and the presumed sole survivor - a 16-year-old Gambian boy - told rescuers he believed all other passengers drowned,… Read more »
Watery Grave for African Migrants En Route to Italy
Approximately 128 migrants who were from Nigeria and other West African countries have died while crossing the Meditteranean Sea to Europe between March 6 and 26, 2017.
InFocus
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In a desperate search for a good life, at least 36,000 Nigerians crossed the sea to Italy in 2016, with most of them claiming they were running away from the Boko Haram insurgency ... Read more »
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The government says 4000 African migrants reached its shores as it battles to deal with "non-stop" arrivals and rescues at sea. Read more »
