{"id":17316,"date":"2023-09-18T17:36:52","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T12:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/current_affairs\/?p=17316"},"modified":"2023-09-18T17:36:55","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T12:06:55","slug":"island-of-lampedusa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/current-affairs\/18-09-2023\/island-of-lampedusa","title":{"rendered":"Island of Lampedusa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Syllabus:<\/strong> <strong>Prelims\/ Current Events of international importance<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">News<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen recently visited the <strong>Italian island of Lampedusa<\/strong>, which is struggling with a <strong>surge in migrant arrivals<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">About<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Lampedusa, which is closer to North Africa than the Italian mainland<\/strong>, has long been targeted by people smugglers. With <strong>Tunisia now the main launching pad for Europe,<\/strong> the island today is receiving around 70% of all migrants arriving in Italy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/nVL2jiNI6S_lcuprWfa1F_7Mtlq2WrGMpTVHZhNH78uvSIRIOE6pJKWzLFBcb-cFLt6aQAUFdZVQbAmPxi3lsGNxWblFH3uMap5mdy5L8mJWOAe9sqUj43VnJsN2Sf5luhApLoH1SbOQ1uXIid0-9M8\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:583px;height:341px\" width=\"583\" height=\"341\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The boats arriving in Lampedusa from Tunisia are <strong>citizens of various African nations, including Ivory Coast, Guinea, Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Mali and Tunisians<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>There is also a growing number of people from neighboring <strong>Libya<\/strong>. These include <strong>citizens of Egypt, Eritrea and Sudan<\/strong>, where the <strong>ongoing conflict between rival military leaders <\/strong>has already displaced more than 4 million people.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The <strong>socio-economic situation in Tunisia is spiraling with high inflation and a lack of jobs<\/strong>, crippling both Tunisians and foreigners living there.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/ccidist-ws\/th\/th_delhi\/issues\/52302\/OPS\/GIVBP1DL6.1+GMLBP1F7B.1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TH<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syllabus: Prelims\/ Current Events of international importance News About Source: TH<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17317,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17316\/revisions\/17317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nextias.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}