The Illegal Migration Crisis: Africa’s’ Forgotten Tragedy

Описание: We can only solve the migration crisis at the root, in the countries of departure”. Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah during the Trans-Mediterranean Migration Forum 2024 in Tripoli, Libya.

From January 2020 to May 2024, 7,115 people were reported to have died or gone missing in the Mediterranean Sea while in the same period, 1,180 people died while trying to reach the Mediterranean Sea by crossing the Saharan Desert. This total death toll was equivalent to the deaths related to global terrorism in 2024 was 8,352 were reported killed from 3,350 incidents.

The majority of illegal migrants are highly reported from the Sub-Saharan countries, Syria, Afghanistan, and Yemen who try to get into Europe mostly through the North Africa to Italy and Malta border. In 2023, more than 155,754 migrants were reported to cross into Italy by sea, a number that was almost twice the figure in 2022. For instance, in September 2023, more than 10,000 migrants arrived at Lampedusa, more than the usual residents on the Island. This mass migration led to the Italian Right-wing government under Georgia Meloni making the control of migration the main policy agenda by increasing the time illegal migrants are held, constructing more detention centers, and repatriation of the migrants with no international protection.

Why Illegal Migration?

“I’ve long believed that prevention and stopping people traveling in the first place is one of the best ways to deal with this particular issue”. British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.

Most of the illegal migrants come from conflict and insecurity-related countries such as Libya, South Sudan, Niger, Chad, Somalia, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Central African Republic, Congo DRC, and other Sub-Saharan Africa. There other migrants who move from Gulf