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Valletta summit: Hollande calls for more pressure on Eritrea
Associated PressWednesday, 11 November 2015, 20:44Last update: about 7 hours ago
French President Francois Hollande says "maximal" political and
diplomatic pressure should be applied on the "unscrupulous leaders" of
Eritrea, whose citizens have been fleeing in droves for years to
Europe.
Hollande said Eritrea "is becoming empty of its own population." He
spoke Wednesday at a European Union-African summit on migrants in
Malta.
Eritreans are fleeing what human rights watchdogs call an oppressive
state, where jailing can last indefinitely and conscription can last
years. They constitute one of the largest groups from Africa seeking
asylum in Europe. Tens of thousands have escaped to Europe, many
making perilous sailings in smugglers' boats across the Mediterranean
to Italy.
Hollande said that Europe's dealings with Eritrea require "a job to be
done which is political, and which needs a strict and demanding
diplomacy."
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