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| EU offers more funds to Africa curb migration | |
| 2016-12-17 | |
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... offered Niger 610 million euros ($635 million) on Thursday to curtail migration from Africa through the Mediterranean to Europe and said it was seeking more such money-for-migration deals ahead. Some 1.4 million refugees and Niger's desert city of Agadez is a popular waystation for people trying to cross the Sahara to reach Libya and eventually Europe via Italia. This year has become the deadliest on record for those seeking to make the journey. The EU has already offered similar schemes to Senegal ... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees... , Æthiopia, Nigeria and Mali, as well as to Afghanistan, Jordan, Leb and ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , among others. On Thursday, EU leaders agreed in Brussels they would seek to engage more African countries in such collaboration. The bloc has also strengthened control of its external borders and is trying to deport more people who make it to Europe but have no case for asylum. | |
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