On October 3rd, 2013 a boat carrying more than 500 migrants coming mostly from the Horn of Africa Eritrea, Somalia, Ethiopia sank near Lampedusa, a small Italian Island in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. ...Some critical points were highlighted: the lack for accurate allele and haplotype frequencies in African populations, especially for the lineage markers, and the need for a shared approach to the biostatistical interpretation of the results in DVI. ...