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The African Migrant Crisis: The EU Takes Action

Posted: November 16th, 2016

More than 160,000 migrants and refugees arrived in Italy this year, compared to just over 142,000 during the same time last year. Of those taking the Central Mediterranean route from northern Africa to Italy, 3,755 have died at sea, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM). That’s more deaths than from all Mediterranean routes combined last year.

“There is a lot of pressure now and a lot of initiatives from European governments to ensure that the people coming through from Africa, the overwhelming majority of whom are probably not entitled to asylum, does not become a systemic flow,” the IOM’s spokesperson for the Director-General, Leonard Doyle, told The Cipher Brief. 

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