Dying to Leave Africa

While much has improved in some African countries in recent years, the phenomenon of people risking their lives to leave the continent is one which must be seriously addressed by African governments. If Africans are not dying in the Mediterranean Sea trying to reach Spain, being thrown into the sea by unwary Chinese sea-people, or in the Gulf of Aden as pirates trying to benefit from the chaos in Somalia, they are dying at the border between Egypt and Israel as they struggle to leave the continent by all means possible. This is a state of affairs that urgently needs to be addressed.