This hurts so much as as my fellow Africans and other people from other state try to cross the Mediterranean sea for green pastures in other states. As you read through you will come across pictures and information that are stressing and regrettable to the greener catchers on the adventurous trip.
Here is the story of the Africa-Europe trip through immigration;
This started in the collapse of the Libyan government in 2014 where conditions inside Libya have deteriorated since the citizen uprising against Gaddafi. Armed conflict between two rivaling factions has engulfed the country as they fight for legitimacy, and the country became non-governmental hence creating a route to Europe through it`s 1,100-mile coastline which has effectively become an open border without government forces to monitor who comes and who goes. Smugglers have filled the void, willing to tightly pack hundreds of migrants at a time into flimsy vessels and shuttle them to Italy.
The journey starts through the Murzuq Desert where temperatures can rise as high as 108 °F during the brutally hot summer months where they are carried by pickups that move with highlighting speed such that when one mistakes and falls, they just leave you for dead. Mostly the journey lasts for almost two weeks. Barely you can imagine being in chromed vehicle for 336 hours without water, freezing nights through the desert and other many grievances.The desert also turns into a massive hub for human smuggling, with migrants shuttled between refugee camps, stash houses, even tucked inside the hollowed-out center of a merchant's lorry. Those who survive share horror stories of kidnappers who held them for ransom, waiting hours, days, or weeks until families back home or in Europe opened up their pocketbooks once again.
After the tiresome journey they reach to Tripoli where the most scarely part reaches, smuggling route across the central Mediterranean Sea which mark as the deadliest point of all migration in the region. More than 3,000 people have tried to cross from Libya to the Italian coast. They are packed on a daring floating vessels like almost 200 people as you can see in the picture below and sail through the sea where the wind is their own guidance to the coast of Europe. You can imagine yourself on such a vessel in the sea at midnight because the journey takes almost 3/4 of a day and mostly the sail off the coast of Libya at night to prevent onlookers (Libya coast guards) At least European authorities have tried to crack down on the practice, turning back the boats still out at sea. Many migrants are deported outright. But for every smuggler's ship that is seized by authorities, a new, often rickety, version replaces it, launched at the peril of those onboard.
This baloons called boats not many reach "Canaan" as they capsize making the Mediterranean a vast unmarked grave to thousands of migrant lives lost at sea. More than 3,000 people have died crossing the most treacherous point of the Mediterranean, where Libya's northern shore connects to the string of islands surrounding the Italian coast.
What many migrants don't know is that their journey will drag them through several layers of hell before their toes even touch the sea.
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