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More than 3,000 migrants have died on the perilous journey across the Mediterranean this year, but on Monday the crossing gave life: to a baby boy.

The humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders said the chubby-cheeked “little guy” was born aboard its rescue ship Aquarius on Monday.

His Nigerian parents — Otis and Faith — had left Libya in an overcrowded rubber boat 24 hours earlier in an attempt to reach Europe.

Faith was already having contractions when they were picked up by Aquarius, Doctors Without Borders said.

“I was very stressed on the rubber boat, sitting on the floor of the boat with the other women and children,” Faith told the organization, which is also known as Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). “Panicking that I would go into labor, I could feel my baby moving. He would move down and then move back up again. I had been having contractions for three days.”

MSF Midwife Jonquil Nicholl helped deliver the baby and called the process “a very normal birth in dangerously abnormal conditions,” according to a statement issued by the organization.

“I am filled with horror at the thought of what would have happened if this baby had arrived 24 hours earlier,” she said. “In that unseaworthy rubber boat, with fuel on the bottom where the women sit, crammed in with no space to move, at the mercy of the sea.”

Otis and Faith were with rescued along with their two existing sons, 7-year-old Victory and 5-year-old Rollres, MSF added. They have not yet named their new arrival.

Their rubber vessel was one of two intercepted by the Aquarius on Monday that led to the rescues of 253 migrants and refugees in total, according to MSF. Among them were 97 people under the age of 18 — including 84 traveling without a parent or guardian.

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Source: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/baby-boy-is-born-aboard-migrant-rescue-boat/ar-AAiNxMg
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Nawa Oooo! Shey me sef no go take shortcuts Enter Europe as i dey see am so..Coz this ppl wey dey cross so no get 2 heads Oooo! Na Survival of the Fittest Matter...and they are welcomed with Open arms and No harassment @ the point of Entry as it would've been if they actually applied for Visa with their hard earned Raba!

Nigerians and overseas.

If say the country better emigration for nor pass immigration.

But na so e b now!

Govt wahala..

What nationality is the baby?
Who would produce the birth certificate?

Awww

Smh

I must live in Europe mentality


Who chased her out of Nigeria sef

I watched it on cnn yesterday and I was just ashamed

The baby name shall be " TOKUNBO "

dacovajnr:
Nawa Oooo! Shey me sef no go take shortcuts Enter Europe as i dey see am so..Coz this ppl wey dey cross so no get 2 heads Oooo! Na Survival of the Fittest Matter...and they are welcomed with Open arms and No harassment @ the point of Entry as it would've been if they actually applied for Visa with their hard earned Raba!

Trust me you wouldn't want to use "shortcut" to enter Europe if you see the way migrants are treated now

His name go be Ojemba if na boy, but if na girl, Ijeoma

Smh

Naija sweet,


































4 me.

I can see couple who are determined to give their unborn child a better future even if it means death, bravo to the mother; a courageous woman. Nigeria is not a country quote me anywhere.
Nigeria is a geographical / political battle field for hausa, fulani igbo and yoruba. I weep for this country because the future leaders have been incapacitated with seed of discord and anarchy sown into them.


It will only take time before we all say goodbye to Nigeria

what kinda rubbish is this, take such risk with pregnancy, crazy couple

Barika de sallah.

And the baby is christened, Medite.............

And his name is ....Newman

Hallelujah, the boy don show circumstances not withstanding

Hmm

what a pathetic circumstances.

The New Born Baby shall be call..............

Welcome Sea World.

mayorjosh:
Smh

I must live in Europe mentality


Who chased her out of Nigeria sef

I watched it on cnn yesterday and I was just ashamed

If Europeans think that this lawbreakers deserve their tax money i think we should let them be, you make your money and decide how to spend it.

To be citizen of which country now?

blueseacats:
If Europeans think that this lawbreakers deserve their tax money i think we should let them be, you make your money and decide how to spend it.

Ikr

Wise talk

Thank God 4 her and her family...Naija hmmmm

Keneking:
What nationality is the baby?
Who would produce the birth certificate?

Good question. If you ask me, na who I go ask?

Cute kid

~if to say things better dem for stay~

Welcome to the world newman

"No be by force to go Dubai..."
_Davido

d child would be an Italian,since delivery occurred on the territorial waters of italy