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Lampedusa, gateway to Europe for Africa's migrants
October 22, 2019 - Lampedusa, Italia: The hotspot for migrants arriving in Lampedusa. Migrants usually stay only a few days here before being transferred to bigger migrant centres in Sicily. Since the early 2000s, Lampedusa, the European territory closest to Libya, has become a prime transit point for irregular migrants from Africa, the Middle East and Asia wanting to enter Europe. In 2004 the Libyan and Italian governments reached a secret agreement that obliged Libya to accept African immigrants deported from Italian territories. This resulted in the mass repatriation of many people from Lampedusa to Libya between 2004 and 2005. From January to April 2015, about 1600 migrants died on the route from Libya to Lampedusa, making it the deadliest migrant route in the world. (Mehdi Chebil/Polaris) (FOTO:DUKAS/POLARIS)
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