article_snippet.sent: Rome (CNN)Italy is coping with a rising wave of desperate migrants from Africa and Middle East hoping to make it to Europe.
article_snippet.sent: There has been a recent upsurge in migrant boats crossing the Mediterranean into Italy and an increase in rescues performed by The Italian coast guard to aid migrant boats.
article_snippet.sent: Why migrants are dying trying to reach Italy .
article_snippet.sent: According to the International Organization for Migration, Italy registered more than 10,000 migrants arriving in the first three months of 2015, and about 2,000 were rescued at sea during the first weekend of April in the Channel of Sicily.
article_snippet.sent: Most migrants recorded this year come from countries in West Africa as well as Somalia and Syria, the IOM said.
article_snippet.sent: the IOM use Libya as a country of transit.