Nigerians, Eritreans top migrants desperately taking dangerous routes - UNHCR

There are constant reports of migrants drowning while on illegal routes abroad.

While releasing the new report titled: ‘Desperate Journeys’, the UNHCR director of Europe Bureau, Vincent Cochetel, said these migrants make use of people who smuggle them into Europe or take boats not meant for such journeys.

“About 90 percent of them travelled by boat from Libya, and the top two nationalities of those arriving were Nigerians (21 per cent) and Eritreans (11 per cent).