UN Chief: 235,000 More Migrants in Libya Ready to Embark for Italy
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D. The head of the UN Support Mission in Libya, Martin Kobler, has warned that there are 235,000 migrants in Libya “just waiting for the opportunity to go to Italy, which they will.” In an interview Thursday with the Italian daily La Stampa, Kobler said that new waves of migrants will soon be hitting Italy’s shores, adding to the nearly 300,000 migrants that have arrived into Europe by sea since the first of the year. The UN chief also tied migration to terrorism, noting that both phenomena are symptoms of the same disease, which is...
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D. The head of the UN Support Mission in Libya, Martin Kobler, has warned that there are 235,000 migrants in Libya “just waiting for the opportunity to go to Italy, which they will.” In an...
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