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Nigeria presidential inauguration as Buhari starts second term

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Nigeria presidential inauguration as Buhari starts second term

Prince Ebuka - May 29, 2019

NIGERIA President Muhammadu Buhari of Nigeria takes his oath of office for a second and final term in charge...

Nigeria’s Gov. Ambode absent at successor’s inauguration as Lagos Gov.

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Nigeria’s Gov. Ambode absent at successor’s inauguration as Lagos Gov.

Prince Ebuka - May 29, 2019

NIGERIA Out-going Governor of Lagos State, in Nigeria's south-west, Mr Akinwunmi Ambode, says he will not be attending the...

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February 21, 2019

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May 17, 2019

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.

Migrants increasingly reaching Italy by sea from Tunisia

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