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sky news africa Boats emerge from Sahara sand to transport migrants to Spain
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Boats emerge from Sahara sand to transport migrants to Spain

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WESTERN SAHARA Beneath a star-packed sky in the Sahara, smugglers and handymen unearth a boat buried in the sand,...
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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NIGERIA At least 11 migrants trying to reach Europe, including a pregnant woman, drowned Sunday when their boat capsized...
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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TUNISIA The number of migrants reaching Italy by sea shot up from the previous 12-month period, but in contrast...
African migrants protest top UN officials visit in Mexico
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African migrants protest top UN officials visit in Mexico

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MEXICO African migrants protested against poor living conditions in migrant camps in the border town of Tapachula in southern...
Malta to relocate 65 migrants after rescue ships defy Italy ban
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Malta to relocate 65 migrants after rescue ships defy Italy ban

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MALTA Malta's prime minister said Sunday his country would relocate to other EU nations 65 migrants from the Alan...
Outcry as dozens killed in air strike on Libya migrant centre
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Outcry as dozens killed in air strike on Libya migrant centre

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LIBYA International condemnation mounted on Wednesday after more than 40 migrants were killed in an air strike on a...

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