The terrible price of the search for a better life in Europe

Three pictures are all that yaya sangare has to remind him of the circle of relatives he once had.
It turned into 9 months ago while his spouse and sons drowned off the coast of libya.
"i used to be holding my newborn son kami davide in my palms while he died," he says quietly, as he is going thru the small album of pix on his cracked mobile cellphone.
His spouse seri dejezi and their different two sons - 12-12 months-vintage eli and 14-12 months-vintage elise - additionally died when their boat went down in the mediterranean.
Sat on the steps of the piazza garibaldi inside the napoli warmth, the 38-yr-antique lingers over the image of his sons.
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"those boys... I really like them so much."
Yaya's two elder sons eli, 12, and elise, 14, both drowned when the boat they were in collapsed at seaimage copyrightyaya sangare
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Yaya's  elder sons eli, 12, and elise, 14, both drowned when the boat they were in become misplaced at sea
Now it is best yaya and his 4-yr-old daughter, deborah, left to choose up the pieces.
She is smiling and singing, on occasion grabbing her father's hand for attention.
Deborah became additionally on the boat that fateful night time, but yaya says they don't talk approximately it.
"i'll inform her sooner or later what passed off. She recollects once in a while. But in the future i'll take a seat down and inform her all the testimonies, but not now. It is too tough."
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At the start from the ivory coast, yaya left at some point of the primary civil conflict in 2002. Crossing the wilderness into mali and then algeria, he and his younger circle of relatives lived in refugee camps before making the journey to libya, wherein they stayed for 3 months.
However, yaya had desired to attain europe by using sea.
With its islands, and uncovered coastline on both side, italy has been the primary vacation spot for refugees and migrants. Among january and august this 12 months, ninety seven,000 humans got here illegally through boat in line with the un's international organization for migration (iom).
However the course is mostly a deadly one. Greater than 2,000 humans have died in the sea up to now this yr.
Pope francis has called the mediterranean a "massive cemetery", however yaya says he knew he changed into taking a risk coming here.
Yaya's son kami davideimage copyrightyaya sangare
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Yaya's son kami davide, who he says died in his hands
"we wanted to go away because libya become very hard and i desired to make a higher existence for my own family in europe," he says.
He paid greater than €three,000 (£2,766; $3,560) to traffickers to get to sicily however like many persevered violence at their arms. They smashed the pinnacle row of his teeth as they driven him and his own family on to one in all 19 small rickety boats.
"whilst we got on, there were 154 humans on my boat and we have been all on top of each other. It was terrible," yaya says.
The boats gave way within the night - simplest 19 human beings survived from his. Three different vessels and all their passengers vanished into the darkish waters.
Yaya's eyes begin welling up, his voice cracks, but he's taking a deep breath to keep away from crying in front of deborah.
"i couldn't discover my wife dejezi and the boys, my coronary heart harm. I couldn't assist them. Then i noticed their our bodies floating."
He and deborah eventually arrived in sicily, with a small backpack of clothes. Simply the 2 of them.
'a person desired to shop for my daughter'
There's a pronouncing in this town: "vedi napoli e poi muori" (see naples and die).
It lines again to the times when the kingdom of the 2 sicilies - of which naples became the capital - become an prosperous and prestigious part of the arena.
The which means at the back of the old proverb is that when you have visible the respect of naples, there is nothing else worth seeing, but for yaya it's far very lots the opposite.
"that is a awful town. There is not anything here for us. Many stuff have occurred right here."
Yaya's wife seri dejezi also perished off the coast of libyaimage copyrightyaya sangare
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Yaya's spouse seri dejezi also perished off the coast of libya
Yaya lives in a refugee centre inside the metropolis with his young daughter. They each have refugee repute from the un refugee business enterprise in liberia.
However he desires to get out, and angrily recalls a tale over how a person approached him to buy deborah.
"i will by no means forget it. I were given approached by using a person with a smartphone number and become informed, this man wants to buy your daughter for €30,000.
"i visit my workplace (refugee reception centre) and stated 'see what's befell'. I gave them the range, i advised them my story. I began to cry," yaya says.
He adds that not anything became carried out and that the man became never stuck. However he fears that ultimately the town may want to destroy him and deborah.
"i don't just like the way a few men observe my daughter. I fear she can be exploited into capsules and prostitution," he says.
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As he tells his story, there are dozens of different younger ladies and men, of african origin, congregated at the piazza garibaldi.
Pointing to them he says: "i do not want to live like this. I am fearing that i will be left in napoli.
"i am sturdy enough to work but i can't get a process. I want to preserve moving and take deborah to america or australia."
Closing week, a catholic priest who allows refugees entreated his fellow africans not to turn their backs on their fatherland.
Don mussie zerai said that humans should think twice earlier than making the perilous adventure to europe.
But yaya shakes his head once I point out this: "i cannot go again domestic. I don't like the politics there. Additionally i promised a better life for my family."
He says that he's focused on his plans and will only move returned to get his mother and different own family individuals.
"my mother is christian. I get my energy from her and from god, and from my daughter deborah. I do that all in favour of deborah."