The Moroccan navy and a Spanish aid agency put the survival figure at 26, according to reports.<\/p>\n
Morocco\u2019s interior ministry in a statement on Monday, October 1, 2018, said all the migrants on board the boat were from\u00a0sub-Saharan Africa\u00a0<\/a>without giving further details.<\/p>\n The ministry said investigations showed that the organiser of the risky crossing of the Mediterranean sea was from Mali.<\/p>\n Joel Millman<\/strong>, a spokesman for the International Organization for Migration (IOM), told Reuters that \u201cthe boat was adrift since Sunday with 60 people aboard. At least 34 have drowned, it looks like there were 26 survivors.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n In August 2018, the platform of Migration Enlightenment Project Nigeria, MEPN, raised an alarm that over 700 Nigerians died in the Mediterranean Sea while migrating illegally so far in 2018.<\/p>\n The group said out of over 1,500 migrants that have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea in 2018, many of them were Nigerians.<\/p>\n Nigerian leader, President\u00a0Muhammadu Buhari<\/strong>\u00a0had said those leaving the country through illegal means are doing so ‘at their own risk’<\/p>\n He said the country will continue to repatriate Nigerians stuck abroad.<\/p>\n The president stated this during a\u00a0joint press conference<\/a>\u00a0with the German Chancellor,\u00a0Angela Merkel,<\/strong>\u00a0late August in Abuja, the nation’s capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Moroccan navy and a Spanish aid agency put the survival figure at 26, according to reports. Morocco\u2019s interior ministry in a statement on Monday, October 1, 2018, said all the migrants on board the boat were from\u00a0sub-Saharan Africa\u00a0without giving further details. The ministry said investigations showed that the organiser of the risky crossing of the Mediterranean sea was from… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2052,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2051\/revisions\/2052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}