Africa: Scores Die in Search of Better Life

The UN figures show that more than 1,500 migrants or refugees drowned or went missing last year while attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea.

A boat carrying sub-Saharan African migrant workers arrives in Lampedusa from Tripoli (file photo).

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