Facebook Twitter Pinterest A rubber boat with 118 people is rescued 20 nautical miles off the Libyan coast by the rescue vessel Iuventa. Photograph: Cesar Dezfuli“I shot all the photos in the two hours before they were put on another boat to Italy,” he says. Photograph: Cesar DezfuliSumaila, who is now 23 and living in a migration centre in Sicily, did not want to be interviewed. Hours later, Sumaila would be standing on the deck of the Iuventa, staring down Dezfuli’s lens. More than 15 months after being rescued, Sumaila is still waiting for news on his asylum application and nursing dreams of becoming a professional footballer.

Source: The Guardian November 18, 2017 05:00 UTC