Coasts: Rome Spokesperson and Refugees Hundreds

coasts: Flavio di Giacomo, Rome spokesperson for the International Organization of Migration, said four people had been rescued out of an estimated 110 aboard, according to The Waterloo Record. He said more details would become available after the four are brought to shore. Eight bodies were recovered but poor conditions were hampering the search taking place 30 miles 50 kilometres off Libya's coast, Italy's ANSA news agency reported. The vast majority of migrant ships set off from Libya's lawless coasts, where smugglers operate with impunity, charging desperate migrants and refugees hundreds of dollars apiece to make the dangerous Mediterranean crossing. West Africans, most of them hailing from Nigeria, accounted for most of the migrants and refugees in 2016, with a 10-fold increase in their numbers since 2010, Frontex reported. Last year saw a record high number 181,000 people heading to Italy by sea, the EU rescue operation Frontex reported. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.