The UN Migration Agency have reported that, over 1,000 people died in 2017 while trying to cross the Mediterranean from Libya to the Southern coasts of Italy. According to the agency 43,357 migrants and refugees entered Europe by sea in 2017 through 26 April, over 80 percent arriving in Italy and the rest in Spain … Continue reading IOM: Over 1,000 ‘back-way’ deaths in 2017