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2023-08-16 Europe
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Hundreds of migrants arrive on Italian island of Lampedusa
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[AFRICANEWS] Hundreds of migrants colonists have arrived on the small Italian island of Lampedusa within a few hours on Tuesday.
Most of them are from Sfax, Tunisia according to the Italian news agency ANSA.
Many of them were rescued by the Italian Coast Guard, with others rescued by non-profit rescue ships and other small boats arriving independently.
SKY Italia showed a group of migrants colonists filing off a Coast Guard ship and onto the pier in Lampedusa.
Among them were young women and kiddies walking barefoot along the dock towards buses that were waiting.
For the entire summer, authorities have shuttled migrants colonists in and out of the temporary facility on the island which is designed to house 400 people but frequently struggles to accommodate thousands.
After a short period of time on the island, most migrants colonists are transferred by ferry boats to other parts of Italia.
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni, whose right-wing government includes an anti-migrant party, had enlisted the European Union
 ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
’s help to forge an accord with Tunisia in a bid to stop the migrant boats in exchange for economic and other aid.
Her efforts have not slowed the arrivals.
The number of migrants colonists arriving by sea in Italia this year was expected to surpass 100,000 on Tuesday.
It is more than double the number in the same period in 2023. 
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Posted by Fred 2023-08-16 00:00||
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