Deaths at Sea and the Silence from African Governments

In recent years there have been many tragic deaths of African migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea into Europe. One of the most high profile persons who had died in this way was a woman from Somalia who had represented her country in an Olympics event. The Roman Catholic Pope, Francis, recently drew attention to this tragedy when he made a pilgrimage to the site where these deaths often occur. Whenever each of these tragic incidents occur, we often hear much talk about what needs to be done to curb them. A very interesting thing about the talk about how to curb these deaths is that it often comes from European leaders and the talk often centers on what is to be done with the migrants as they attempt to cross the sea - should boats be sent to intercept them and send them back before they meet their tragic end? Generally, there is often a deafening silence on the issue of addressing the root causes of why these people left their countries in the first place to risk their lives crossing into Europe. This silence is often most deafening from the African side where one hardly hears anything from African leaders. Are African leaders that callous? Why are they not concerned that many of their people are risking their lives to reach Europe? When are these leaders going to take the lives of their people seriously enough to want to do everything to ensure that their people do not risk their lives fleeing from their own countries?