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Africa North
Libyan Navy Says More than 300 Migrants Rescued
2019-08-20
[AnNahar] The Libyan navy said Sunday 335 migrants colonists had been rescued and one body recovered in separate operations off the coast, as they tried to cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
Nine children were among 57 migrants colonists in a wooden boat rescued Saturday about 40 nautical miles from the town of Zuwara, west of Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
, navy front man General Ayoub Kacem told AFP.

He said they were from Æthiopia and Egypt.

It came days after Libyan navy patrols on Tuesday "rescued 278 migrants colonists on board four inflatable boats northwest and northeast of Tripoli", Kacem added.

The operations took place off the coasts of the cities of Khoms, 120 kilometers (75 miles) east of Tripoli, and Sabratha, located 70 kilometers west of the capital.

According to the statement, 128 Sudanese were in the boats, in addition to migrants colonists from Chad, Egypt, Niger, Benin and 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...
, including 35 women and 11 children.

One body was also recovered by the coastguard.
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