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LAMPEDUSA, Italy (AFP) ??” Another small boat packed with exhausted Africans was escorted ashore by dint of the Italian coastguard, the latest in a wave of migrants to Europe which displays no sign of letting up

The collection of 26 people, including six women were visibly drained at their voyage from the Libyan coast. Like the centurys arriving before them over the weekend, they were immediately transferred to the island's overcrowd immigrant reception midst

"They told us they plant out from Somalia by give in exchange to Sudan, before passing end Niger and into Libya, where they remained for several month organising their passage to Italy," a police source told AFP Monday.

Italy's Interior Minister Giuseppe Pisanu lately claimed that Libya was hosting up to brace million African migrants who were using the rural parts as a launchpad to reach Europe

Rome last year signed a cooperation accord with Tripoli in a bid to