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Dozens of migrants, from Egypt, Morocco, Somalia and Sierra Leone, are assisted by a team of aid workers of the Spanish NGO Open Arms, after spending more than 20 hours at sea while fleeing Libya on board a precarious boat in international waters, in the Central Mediterranean sea, on September 08, 2020. (Photo by Ricardo GARCIA VILANOVA / AFP) (Photo by RICARDO GARCIA VILANOVA/AFP via Getty Images)

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Illegal migrants sit in an immigration holding centre located on the outskirts of Misrata March 11, 2015. Italy wants Egypt and Tunisia to play a role in rescuing stricken migrant vessels in the Mediterranean, a government planning paper showed, so that survivors could be taken back to African instead of European ports. Last April Italy rescued 4,000 migrants from boats trying to reach European shores in only 48 hours in a deepening immigration crisis that is being made worse by the turmoil in Libya, which

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