Migrant crisis: Time to address injustice, corruption in africa, asia and the Middle east

The statistics are staggering. More than 21,439 migrants have died at the European doors since 1988. Among the casualties were children and teenagers aged one to 19, pregnant women and nursing mothers.

Causes of deaths have also set tongues wagging. Drowning, hypothermia, injuries, hunger, acts of violence, cardiac arrest, dehydration or suffocation have been identified as the main causes.

In recent times, between January and April this year, more than 2,000 migrant lives have been lost on the deadly seas of the Mediterranean, 30 times more than the number same period last year.

In the past three months, more than 25,000 migrants have ‘invaded’ the South East Asian peninsula in what has been described as the region’s biggest influx of boat people since the end of the Vietnam War.

Search for better lives

Putting their lives on the line, these ‘illegal’ migrants have left their homelands to seek greener pastures in ‘juicy’ parts of Europe and