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Severe floods hitting most vulnerable in Sahel and Lake Chad region
According to the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) recent floods in northeast Nigeria have displaced at least 50,000 people from
Spanish police on Friday confirmed that they had broken up a people-smuggling ring that brought more than 1,000 Algerian and Syrian migrants to Spain before relocating them elsewhere in Europe.
Twenty-one people were arrested in the operation involving Europol in the
Madrid region, Andalusia and the Basque country.
Migrants paid up to $21,600 to be brought to Spain and housed there before their transfer to other parts of the continent, police said, according to reporting by AFP.
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