Lampedusa: Joseph Muscat

Joseph Muscat: "I don't know how many more people need to die at sea before something gets done," said Malta's prime minister, Joseph Muscat. "As things stand we are building a cemetery within our Mediterranean Sea." , according to Winnipeg Free Press. In the past two weeks, almost as many migrants have died in that narrow stretch of water -- only 120 kilometres separate the Tunisian coast from Lampedusa -- as died along the U.S.-Mexican border in all of last year. A Syrian refugee comes ashore in Malta after being rescued after a ship capsized. He was talking about the part of the Mediterranean between the North African coast and the two islands that are the closest bits of the European Union: the Italian island of Lampedusa and his own country, Malta. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.