“If today people are leaving Africa is it because some European countries, with France taking the lead, have never stopped colonising tens of African states?”

Italian Deputy PM, last January, calling on EU to sanction France for “impoverishing Africa” and for migrants to be taken to the southern French port of Marseille instead of Italy.”

Thursday, July 25th 2019: Up to 150 African migrants perished off the Libya coast. A husband and survivor from Sudan was quoted by The Guardian saying he helplessly watched his wife and children drown.

What kind of hardship would force a people to board risky boats with entire families for greener pasture in Europe?