Every year, thousands of migrants from Africa risk their lives to journey through the continent and then across the Mediterranean Sea.
The journey is long and treacherous and some estimate only half of those who depart actually make it to their destination.
Many head for Lampedusa - Italy's southern most island. Nick Clark reports.
afrol News - Huge diamonds found in DRC : "A Canadian mineral exploration firm, Mexivada Mining Corp, has reported the discovery of two large diamonds in its 100% controlled Malambani Permis de Recherche concession, located near Mayoko in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Mexivada described the first stone as a white, modified octahedron 7.5 milimetres in diameter while the second stone was a shiny 6 milimetre greenish-white coloured dodecahedral diamond. Each of them weighs 0.1 gram"