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| Merkel announces aid package for Niger to stem migrant flow |
| 2016-10-11 |
| [AlAhram] German Chancellor Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom... on Monday announced a 27-million-euro aid package for Niger, her second stop in a three-nation Africa tour aimed at fighting terrorism and stemming the migrant influx to Europe. The German leader said the army of the arid west African country, one of the world's poorest, would receive 10 million euros ($11 million) worth of equipment. Germany will also build a military base to back up the UN mission in neighbouring Mali, the first country she had visited on the whirlwind African tour. Merkel also promised 17 million euros as development aid for Niger's arid and desperately impoverished Agadez region in the north in a bid to fight migration to Europe. She said efforts to stall the influx of Niger is a key transit point for people from sub-Saharan Africa who try to cross the Mediterranean to enter Europe. Since 2014 more than 10,000 Merkel has said that she wants the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... and North African countries to do deals modelled on a controversial agreement with ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... to curb migrant flows to Europe. Under the EU-Turkey deal, Ankara agreed to take back Syrians who made it to Greece in return for being allowed to send refugees from its massive camps to the bloc in a more orderly redistribution programme. The pact also pledges billions of euros in EU aid for Turkey and visa-free European travel for Turkish citizens. Merkel will visit Æthiopia on the last leg of her trip. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #7 $27 mm to call off the invasion> Wonder if that would've worked for D-Day. |
| Posted by: regular joe 2016-10-11 16:28 |
| #6 Merkel should visit South Chicago Yeah... Mahagonny needs Germans! Chicago is short of compassion, So maybe, in motherly fashion, A new social Helfer Will offer der Welfare, And boy, are they ready to cash in! |
| Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220 2016-10-11 16:08 |
| #5 Frau Merkel should visit South Chicago to see how well programs of this nature work. |
| Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2016-10-11 13:10 |
| #4 27M will barely cover the payoffs. |
| Posted by: Creans Mussolini5645 2016-10-11 12:57 |
| #3 I'd say she should give it to the German Border Patrol but they gave that up, didn't they? |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2016-10-11 11:26 |
| #2 Intercontinental welfare. This should work well. /sarc |
| Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2016-10-11 07:52 |
| #1 Treating cancer with reflexology? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-10-11 02:33 |