EU sets up centre in Africa to fight illegal migration

The EU yesterday moved to export its controls on illegal immigration for the first time by setting up a new office in Africa, the first of several it plans to open to try to deal with a flood of migration, says the Guardian.

Louis Michel, the EU's development commissioner, went to Bamako, the capital of Mali, one of the world's poorest countries, to open the migration management centre and inaugurate a pilot scheme to try to dissuade Africans from taking the hazardous routes to Europe.

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