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Thursday, June 2, 2016

France urges more cooperation with Africa on migration

[A group of Sudanese and Eritrean migrants are seen in silhouette near a rock with white hand prints on the seawall at the Saint Ludovic border crossing on the Mediterranean Sea between Vintimiglia and Menton]The European Union needs to work more with African countries to tackle migration flows into the continent, France's prime minister said in an interview with a Greek newspaper on Thursday. The EU, which struck a deal with Turkey to stem the arrival of undocumented migrants and refugees to Greece, has been scrambling for ways to shut down flows on the other major sea route into the continent from Libya as calmer weather begins. "We need to cooperate further with African countries of transit or of origin," Manuel Valls told Kathimerini ahead of a two-day visit to Greece on Thursday.


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