Migrants rescued from the mediterranean sea

In what have turned into a routine daily affair at the southern Mediterranean sea in recent past, migrants have continued to suffer untold hardship as they seek an escape route through the most dangerous coastal lines. While most of the migrants seeks a better life outside the shores of their country, others aimed at seeking asylum away from political instability and war infernos that have continually ravaged their country in recent times. Monday images shows approximately 6,500 people,many from Eritrea and Somalia, who had set off in a wooden fishing boats across the coastline.

Most of the migrants this year shows individuals fleeing war and poverty in Nigeria and Ivory Coast, or dictatorship in Eritrea and Gambia. Others includes migrants workers who hope to make a living in Libya, but were forced to flee the country due to the civil war that has ravaged their successes so far and the seemingly lawlessness that now steer the ship of states.

According to the Italian coastguards, in what appears to be one of her biggest rescue operation in recent past, over 40 co-ordinated rescue missions took place about 20km (12miles) off the Libyan town of Sabratha. On Sunday, more than 1,100 migrants were rescued in the same area, as images shows migrants supposedly from Eritrea and Somalia, cheering, as some gallantly jumped out of their wooden boats, swimming to the rescue vessels while others carried babies on board.

Monday Operations involved vessels from Italy as well as the EU's border agency Frontex and the NGOs Proactiva Open Arms and Medecins Sans Frontieres MSF. 

The scenes highlight the dangerous tactics of Libyan Smugglers who put so many people on each repurposed fishing trawler that is highly unlikely the migrants will reach Italy without being rescued by the charity boats and military missions operating in that area. According to reports, the instability in Libya has made the country a super hub for people - trafficking most especially those who supposedly are promised better opportunities when they eventually lands in Europe. 

Subsequently, migrants from African counties such as Eritrea and Somalia as well as other west African nations such as Nigeria and the Gambia are continuing to attempt the crossing from Libya to Italy. About 106,000 persons have arrived in Italy so far this year while a total of 2,726 have died in the attempt, according to the international organization for migration IOM.  They also reveals that a whopping number of 275,000 migrants currently in Libya are waiting to travel for a supposed better living.