Nora Bouzidi holds a photo of her missing son, 20-year-old Ayoub Toussi — one of 51 migrants who boarded a boat in Morocco in 2022, hoping to reach Europe, then disappeared. Africa’s exploding population is fueling new waves of migration by frustrated youth taking desperate risks: at least 28,000 have died on the Mediterranean since 2014, the United Nations says.

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