Thursday, April 16, 2015

Migrant children test Europe as Mediterranean crisis worsens

Adolescent migrants Mustafa (2nd R) from Gambia and Ishmael (R) from Sierra Leone stand in a courtyard at an immigration centre in Caltagirone, Sicily By Steve Scherer CALTAGIRONE, Italy (Reuters) - Sixteen-year-old orphan Ishmael Bangura fled Sierra Leone in July when the Ebola virus killed eight members of his household. On his way to Italy from Libya months later, his boat capsized. Today Bangura is living in a shelter on this Sicilian hilltop town. The number of migrants reaching Italy by sea this year is set to top last year's record of 170,000, the International Organization for Migration said.








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