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Sfax, Tunisia – Having attempted the journey twice in the past six months, Mohammed Sowe, a Gambian man in his mid-20s, has no illusions about the danger that awaits refugees trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea to Europe.
The first time he tried to travel from the Tunisian port of Sfax, the boat he was on was stopped by Tunisia’s coastguard. During his second attempt, the sea almost took the lives of Sowe and the other passengers on board the flat-bottomed, keelless boat.
“The water was coming up over the sides,” he told Al Jazeera, adding that the waves were so violent that the passengers of the self-crewed boat were forced to make the decision to abandon their 350km (215-mile) journey after four to five hours at sea.
“The water was filling the boat, so we turned back,” he said on Thursday.
News of Wednesday’s deadly capsizing of a boat off Tunisia was just beginning to trickle into the refugee camps around the medina of Sfax, where Sowe has been living after leaving The Gambia.
Italian state television RAI cited four survivors who were rescued and brought to the island of Lampedusa, who said 41 other passengers on the sunken boat were likely dead.
The news of this shipwreck along with his own terrifying experience was not enough to dissuade Sowe from trying again to make the journey to Europe as soon as possible.
“You have to do it. You have to,” he said, gesturing to the sun-bleached square of dirt on which he sleeps and saying young Tunisian men, some armed with machetes, prey upon him and other refugees constantly.
“Europe is the land of opportunity,” he said.
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Comment:
The Left's CRT, ESG and DEI agenda is telling everyone that White people are the world's oppressors, and they are the root cause of all of the world's social ills.
So why would Africans want to leave the safety of their countries where they are in control of their culture and their governments and migrate to a country of oppressors?
Is the Left lying?
The first time he tried to travel from the Tunisian port of Sfax, the boat he was on was stopped by Tunisia’s coastguard. During his second attempt, the sea almost took the lives of Sowe and the other passengers on board the flat-bottomed, keelless boat.
“The water was coming up over the sides,” he told Al Jazeera, adding that the waves were so violent that the passengers of the self-crewed boat were forced to make the decision to abandon their 350km (215-mile) journey after four to five hours at sea.
“The water was filling the boat, so we turned back,” he said on Thursday.
News of Wednesday’s deadly capsizing of a boat off Tunisia was just beginning to trickle into the refugee camps around the medina of Sfax, where Sowe has been living after leaving The Gambia.
Italian state television RAI cited four survivors who were rescued and brought to the island of Lampedusa, who said 41 other passengers on the sunken boat were likely dead.
The news of this shipwreck along with his own terrifying experience was not enough to dissuade Sowe from trying again to make the journey to Europe as soon as possible.
“You have to do it. You have to,” he said, gesturing to the sun-bleached square of dirt on which he sleeps and saying young Tunisian men, some armed with machetes, prey upon him and other refugees constantly.
“Europe is the land of opportunity,” he said.
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The Left's CRT, ESG and DEI agenda is telling everyone that White people are the world's oppressors, and they are the root cause of all of the world's social ills.
So why would Africans want to leave the safety of their countries where they are in control of their culture and their governments and migrate to a country of oppressors?
Is the Left lying?
