Unlike the first slave trade where Africans were sold by fellow Africans and at times captured by force, i do not feel real pity for these people.Its sad but most of them know where they want to go.Look at what happens daily at the mediterranean sea, make shift boats "docking" daily. There are even villages in Italy whose immigrant population is larger than the local population.
These guys in Libya know where they are going. They have people waiting for them abroad , friends, brothers,sisters or even cousins.It only happens that Libya is on the route to 'Caanann' their promised land. Its the stopover where at times money ends and you have to look for more so as to pay the traffickers.So what immigrans do is they look for menial jobs and save till they get the full amount to pay for the boat trip.
Why i say i have less pity is no one chased these Africans from their countries and this should be a lesson.Stay home and build from within.
I saw some who were sent from Switzerland, they are given money to go back to their countries and then several months after they are back to the sea.
Eish, i have never heard of war in Senegal,Niger, in Ivory coast its over.Nigerian's are just using the homosexual discrimination as a way of getting to Europe and when they get there marry in secret.
I think its time we respected ourselves.