{"id":356986,"date":"2011-04-01T10:12:34","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T10:12:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/01\/italy-moves-migrants-to-mainland\/"},"modified":"2011-04-01T10:12:34","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T10:12:34","slug":"italy-moves-migrants-to-mainland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/01\/italy-moves-migrants-to-mainland\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy moves migrants to mainland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"82.347550675676\">\n    \t\t  <span><br \/>\n    <span>1 April 2011<\/span><br \/>\n<span>Last updated at <\/span><span>06:12 ET<\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>        <!--  Embedding the video player --><br \/>\n<!--  This is the embedded player component --><\/p>\n<div readability=\"32\">\n<div>\n<div readability=\"7\">\n                                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"holding\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/23aa4522954654_lamp.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"Migrant settlement\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Please turn on JavaScript.<\/strong> Media requires JavaScript to play.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>        <!-- embedding script --><\/p><\/div>\n<p>            <!-- companion banner --> <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<!-- END - companion banner --><!-- caption --><\/p>\n<p>So many migrants fled to Lampedusa that it caused a humanitarian crisis<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<!-- END - caption -->\n        <\/div>\n<p><!-- end of the embedded player component --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Player embedded -->\t<\/p>\n<p>Italy has transferred 1,716 North African migrants &#8211; most of them Tunisian &#8211; to a temporary camp site in its south-eastern Puglia region.<\/p>\n<p>The migrants arrived by ship on Thursday from Lampedusa, a tiny island packed with thousands fleeing poverty and unrest in Tunisia.<\/p>\n<p>A &#8220;tent city&#8221; has been set up to accommodate them in Manduria, a town in the southern heel of Italy.<\/p>\n<p>Overcrowding has created unhygienic conditions on Lampedusa, officials say.<\/p>\n<p>Italy&#8217;s Il Giornale newspaper says Rome is planning to repatriate 100 Tunisians every day.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will visit Tunis on Monday to discuss the migrant influx with the authorities. <\/p>\n<p>  <span>North Africa crisis<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Unrest has continued to grip Tunisia since an uprising in January toppled President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. <\/p>\n<p>Italy says about 20,000 migrants have arrived on its shores &#8211; mostly on Lampedusa &#8211; in the past three months, aboard overcrowded boats from Tunisia and war-torn Libya.<\/p>\n<p>Bad weather has delayed further transfers from Lampedusa, but Italy has several ships at anchor off the island, ready to receive migrants.<\/p>\n<p>On a visit to the island on Wednesday, Mr Berlusconi said that in &#8220;48 to 60 hours Lampedusa will be inhabited only by Lampedusans&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Italy&#8217;s Foreign Minister Franco Frattini has complained about the handling of the crisis by the EU and France.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Europe has been absolutely inactive on this,&#8221; he told SkyTG24 TV, adding that &#8220;very limited funds&#8221; had been forthcoming from Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>An EU spokesman responded, saying that 18m euros (\u00a315.8m; $25m) had been given to Rome for repatriations in the past year, on top of emergency funds handed to all EU member states.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Frattini accused France of a lack of solidarity by sending back Tunisian migrants who had tried to cross the Italian border with France at Ventimiglia.<\/p>\n<p>The European Commission has offered to double EU development aid for Tunisia, to 320m euros (\u00a3282m; $453m) over the next two years, the Associated Press news agency reports. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/23aa4522954654_lamp.jpg-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>See the rest here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/int\/news\/-\/news\/world-europe-12932904\" title=\"Italy moves migrants to mainland\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Italy moves migrants to mainland<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 1 April 2011 Last updated at 06:12 ET Please turn on JavaScript. 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