Medical charity MSF said because the baby was born in international waters, his nationality was still under debate.
The Nigerian woman, Mrs Oqunbor said she had been "very stressed" on the rubber boat and had been having contractions for three days.
MSF midwife Jonquil Nicholl, who delivered the baby, said: "I am filled with horror at the thought of what would have happened if this baby had arrived 24 hours earlier - in that unseaworthy rubber boat, with fuel on the bottom where the women sit, crammed in with no space to move, at the mercy of the sea.
"And 48 hours previously they were waiting on a beach in Libya not knowing what was ahead of them."
Culled from BBC News
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