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Africa North
Yet more migrants drown
2017-03-30
[Libya Herald] A 16 year-old 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...
n boy appears to have been the only one of some 150 migrants colonists to survive when their inflatable sank yesterday off the coast near Sabratha.

The boy was picked up by a Spanish frigate, transferred to an Italian vessel and landed in Lampedusa. safely ashore he said that those on the raft with him had included five children and several pregnant women.

All had drowned, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) told Rooters. The boy had survived by grabbing a fuel tank after the raft began to deflate and take water. He added that the migrants colonists had been launched from Sabratha.

Yesterday the Sabratha’s mayor said that the municipality had lost control over local fuel smugglers. He did not mention people smugglers, who appear to operate just as freely as those who are stealing subsidised fuel from under the noses of the authorities.
Posted by:Fred

#1  Oh well
Posted by: chris   2017-03-30 00:16  

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