Africans Top 2019 Global List Of Dead Irregular Migrants

More Africans have died during irregular migration this year than any other peoples, research by a United Nations (UN) agency showed, last Wednesday.
No fewer than 2,479 persons lost their lives globally trying to reach different parts of Europe and North America through irregular migration routes.
Available statistics shows that 860 of them were Africans.
Figures released by Missing Migrants Project of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), said the deaths were recorded across six regions of the world between January 1 and October 15, 2019.
With a total of 1,073 deaths, the Mediterranean Sea tops the list of routes where thousands of migrants lost their lives this year, making it the deadliest irregular migration route.
Since 2014, almost 20,000 Europe-bound migrants who are fleeing war or poverty in Sub-Saharan and Asian countries have lost their lives on the Mediterranean Sea.
The data set by the UN agency revealed that 613 migrant deaths were recorded in the Americas and 612 deaths in various parts of Africa.