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Frontex Chief: 300,000 More Migrants Headed From Africa to Europeby THOMAS D. WILLIAMS, PH.D.Breitbart Jul. 01, 2016 |
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 The director of the agency for the control of the external borders of the European Union (EU) has predicted that as many as 300,000 new migrants will be heading up from sub-Saharan Africa into Europe, most of whom will attempt to reach Italy as first port of call. Fabrice Leggeri, the director of Frontex, said Tuesday that he based his estimates in part on recent surveys done in the Agadez region of Niger, where sub-Saharan migration has reached 13 thousand persons per month. "If migration flows from West Africa continue toward Libya, then we must expect some 300,000 people fleeing this year from West Africa to the northern Maghreb, to then continue to travel to Europe," he said in an interview with the German Funke media group. [...]“The majority of the asylum seekers are now coming from countries such as Eritrea in the Horn of Africa, where a brutal military regime is in power,” he said. “The numbers are increasing,” Leggeri said, noting that in just four days some 11,000 migrants had been rescued in the Mediterranean, mostly in boats departing from Libya and heading to Italy. Read More |
