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sky news africa UN: 11 migrants drown off Libya; third shipwreck in week
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UN: 11 migrants drown off Libya; third shipwreck in week

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sky news africa Morocco is a major non-NATO ally of the United States. Esper met with Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs Nasser Bourita upon his arrival Friday. Full details of his plans weren’t immediately disclosed. The military agreement “serves as a road map for defense cooperation and aims to strengthen the strategic partnership between the two countries and support shared security goals,” according to a statement issued by the Moroccan Foreign Ministry. The agreement centers on “consolidating common security objectives, especially improving the degree of military readiness,” a statement from the General Command of the Moroccan Royal Armed Forces said. Esper also met with the deputy minister under the prime minister, charged with national defense, Abdeltif Loudiyi. The two officials expressed their “satisfaction with the durability, distinction, continuity and dynamism of the bilateral cooperation,” the statement from the General Command said. Esper also met with the Inspector General of the Morocco Royal Armed Forces, Gen. Abdelfettah Louarak.
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US signs 10-year military cooperation deal with Morocco

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sky news africa Algerian journalist sentenced to 2 years in prison
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Algerian journalist sentenced to 2 years in prison

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sky news africa In the year up through July 2015, some 175,000 migrants were plucked to safety in the Mediterranean from smugglers’ boats and brought to Italy. From August 2016 through July 2017, the number was even higher — about 183,000. In the last few years, Italian authorities have made it difficult for humanitarian rescue ships operating in the central Mediterranean Sea. Some of the charity boats have ended up impounded in Italian ports for technical reasons. And when anti-migrant leader Matteo Salvini was Italy’s interior minister in the previous government, humanitarian rescue boats were sometimes kept at sea for days or weeks at a time with migrants aboard while waiting permission to disembark. Commenting on the latest figures, Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese said many of those setting out from Tunisia in small boats and reaching Italy are Tunisians determined to escape economic hardship in their homeland, not refugees fleeing conflict. She and Italy’s foreign minister will visit Tunisia on Monday, along with two European Union commissioners, to try to boost solidarity with Tunisia and its “young democracy,” Lamorgese said. While thousands of migrants, many from sub-Saharan Africa, still set out for Europe from lawless Libya, where human traffickers have been based for years, according to Italy’s latest figures more migrants reached Italy by sea from Tunisia than from Libya. Italy has a repatriation agreement with Tunisia that allows Italian authorities to relatively quickly send back to Tunisia those found ineligible for asylum.
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Migrants increasingly reaching Italy by sea from Tunisia

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sky news africa Algeria reopens mosques, beaches after 5-month lockdown
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Algeria reopens mosques, beaches after 5-month lockdown

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sky news africa Algerian reporter sentenced to 3 years over protest coverage
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Algerian reporter sentenced to 3 years over protest coverage

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sky news africa Moroccans swim, sing, reconnects as lockdown lifts
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PHOTOS: Moroccans swim, sing, reconnects as lockdown lifts

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sky news africa Suicide bomber kills 2 at Turkish military base in Somalia
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Suicide bomber kills 2 at Turkish military base in Somalia

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Morocco sends 8 million masks to 15 African countries

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sky news africa Unrest, division in Libya threatens COVID-19 response
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Unrest, division in Libya threatens COVID-19 response

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