No fewer than 61 migrants, including women and children, mostly from Nigeria, Gambia, and other African countries, drowned at the weekend, in a shipwreck off the coast of Libya. The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) in Libya confirmed the incident. The AFP news agency also confirmed that most of the victims of the incident were from Nigeria, Gambia, and other African countries. The IOM, in a post on social media platform X, quoted survivors as saying that the boat, carrying about 86 people, departed the Libyan city of Zuwara, about…
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