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Africa North
Migrants continued to cross the Mediterranean despite dangerous sea conditions: IOM
2016-11-30
[Libya Herald] Moslem colonists Migrants continue to cross the Mediterranean from Libya in record numbers despite dangerous sea conditions and colder winter weather, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) says in its latest report published today.

The report states that 348,664 migrants colonists and refugees entered Europe by sea and there were 4,690 deaths at sea in 2016 up to 29 November.

The IOM report states that 171,731 people arrived in Greece and 171,299 in Italia during 2016. However,
we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by...
 the total is well below the number of arrivals at this point in 2015, by which time some 883,393 migrants colonists and refugees had made the journey.

Yesterday alone, 1,413 migrants colonists were rescued during 13 operations carried out between Libya and Italia, bringing the total picked up since last weekend to 2,070. The migrants colonists were rescued in operations carried out by the Norwegian Siem Pilot, several Italian Coast Guard ships, the Italian Navy ships Borsini, Grecale and Fasan and other international rescue ships, the IOM reported.

"In November 2016, 11,872 arrivals were registered, compared to 3,219 in November 2015, and 9,295 in November 2014," said IOM Italia spokesperson Flavio Di Giacomo.

As of 28 November, Nigeria remains the top sending country with 35,716 migrants colonists arriving in Italia in 2016, followed by Eritrea
...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age...
 (20,000), Guinea (12,352), Cote d’Ivoire (11,406) and Gambia
... The Gambia is actually surrounded by Senegal on all sides but its west coast. It has a population of about 1.7 million. The difference between the two is that in colonial days Senegal was ruled by La Belle France and The Gambia (so-called because there's only one of it, unlike Guinea, of which there are the Republic of Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, New Guinea, the English coin in circulation between 1663 and 1813, and Guyana, which sounds like it should be another one) was ruled by Britain...
 (11,022).

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