[AlAhram] The migrant rescue ship Ocean Viking rescued 86 people off the coast of Libya on Tuesday as their vessel foundered while trying to reach Europe, its French-based operator said.
"The rescued, mainly from 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...
and Senegal
... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees...
, were suffering from dehydration, exhaustion and fuel burns," a front man for the charity told AFP.
He added that most of the migrants colonists were minors, trying to cross the Mediterranean on their own, without family.
...where a minor is self-defined as a male between the ages of ten and forty years, as the tests have shown. Italian authorities have said the passengers can disembark at its port of Bari, which the charity said was still a three-day voyage away.
According to the Italian interior ministry, around 90,000 migrants colonists have arrived by sea so far this year.
The UN's International Organization for Migration estimates that 1,724 migrants colonists had disappeared trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europa
 ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
so far this year, up from 1,417 last year. 
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