The UN Security Council is to hold a special meeting next week to consider how to deal with the relentless wave of African migrants crossing the Mediterranean trying to reach Europe.
The European Union’s foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini will brief the UN’s 15-member body. The EU hopes it will endorse its plan to tackle the human traffickers via possible military action against their boats.
.FedericaMog will brief UN Security Council on Monday 11 May on #Mediterranean http://t.co/bRQKgvAGK1— EU External Action (@eu_eeas) May 6, 2015
Reports say Security Council members Britain, France and Spain have been working with Italy on a draft resolution.
Video has emerged of one of the latest dramas, last weekend. It was filmed by a crew member of the cargo ship “Zeran” which rescued migrants from two boats.
West Africans are seen crying desperately for help from their crowded, deflating rubber dinghy as it fills with water. Survivors later said dozens had drowned after they fe
