Monday, February 14, 2011

Immigrants or Exiles from Turmoil


Fleeing Tunisian migrants land on Italian island

By FRANCE 2 / Shona BHATTACHARYYA (video)
News Wires (text)
 
AFP - Nearly 1,000 Tunisian migrants arrived on the Italian island of Lampedusa overnight, where the government has already declared a humanitarian emergency, coast guards said Sunday.
            
"Since midnight, 977 people arrived on Lampedusa," the harbour master on Lampedusa, Antonio Morana, said as two more boats approached the tiny island off Sicily.
            
Thousands of Tunisians have been sailing across the Mediterranean in the wake of the North African country's revolution a month ago...more

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