Heartbreak that is Africa for Migrants (2)

Quentin Sommerville looks around a crowded migrant detention centre in Misrata. As many as 400 migrants are believed to have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea as their boat capsized off the Libyan coast. Many of the migrants who try to reach European shores first have to get to Libya. Once there, many are detained by the local authorities and end up being held for months in often squalid conditions.

With all due respect to Henry David Thoreau, The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation certainly doesn't apply to these African men.  For their desperation may be far from quiet.