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2020-11-14 Africa North
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Twenty migrants drown in Libya shipwreck, fourth accident this week
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 [AlAhram] Twenty African migrants colonists are believed to have drowned off the coast of Libya when their boat sank as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to Europe, while more bodies washed ashore on Libyan beaches on Friday from a shipwreck earlier this week.
The latest shipwreck, a wooden boat that left from Surman in western Libya, is the fourth this week and brings the total corpse count to more than 100 people, an International Organization for Migration spokeswoman said.
Some of the survivors were from Nigeria, Gambia
... The Gambia is actually surrounded by The Senegal on all sides but its west coast. It has a population of about 1.7 million. The difference between the two is that in colonial days Senegal was ruled by La Belle France and The Gambia (so-called because there's only one of it, unlike Guinea, of which there are the Republic of Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, New Guinea, the English coin in circulation between 1663 and 1813, and Guyana, which sounds like it should be another one) was ruled by Britain...
, Ghana and Burkina Faso
...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other...
.​ Elsa Laino of Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF) said three women had been rescued by local fishermen and were in a state of trauma.
"They saw their family and relatives die in front of them and now they are left alone in a country that is not safe," she told Rooters.
Aid workers say that worsening treatment of sub-Saharan African migrants colonists in Libya as well as relatively calm seas may have prompted the flurry of departures. Thousands of migrants colonists leave sub-Saharan Africa every year on a perilous journey to Europa
 ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
as they seek to escape conflict and poverty.
Earlier this week, coastguards and Spanish charity Open Arms were involved in two other rescues where several migrants colonists drowned.
On Thursday, a rubber dinghy crammed with more than 120 people aboard that had left from the town of Khums capsized.
"Staff in the region reported that more bodies continued to wash ashore overnight," IOM spokeswoman Safa Msehli told a briefing in Geneva.
Fisherman and the coasties had earlier recovered 31 bodies from the first wreck, including a toddler.
Survivors are being held in the city of Khums, Msehli said, calling on authorities to release them and provide protection to prevent them falling into the hands of smugglers and traffickers.
"The worsening humanitarian conditions of migrants colonists detained in overcrowded centres, widespread arbitrary arrests and imprisonment, and extortion and abuse are alarming," she said.
MSF's Laino said the lack of search and rescue teams in the Mediterranean was contributing to the high corpse count.
More than 900 people have died this year attempting the Mediterranean crossing to reach Europe. Thousands more have been stopped at sea and returned to Libya where they are often vulnerable to exploitation and abuse 
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