Syrian refugee Mohammed Abdel Laal Shemi with his five-year-old daughter Lamar on his shoulders with other African migrants at the Hal Far open centre for migrants in Hal Far, Malta October 22, 2013. Laal Shemi wife, who was pregnant with twins, and his other daughter, were lost when their boat capsized 60 miles south of Lampedusa earlier this month, leaving between 50 and 200 Syrian and Palestinian migrants dead, according to local media.The political instability in Africa and the Middle East has created an even greater migrant crisis as many try to seek political asylum . Italy will seek an overhaul of European asylum policies and emergency action to handle a crisis that has seen tens of thousands of African migrants arrive in Sicily and Malta and hundreds of deaths, Prime Minister Enrico Letta said.(Photo by Heidi Levine/Sipa Press)./LEVINE_0951.01/Credit:LEVINE/SIPA/1310231015