Tiny Malta feels pressure of immigrant traffic
From Reuters:
VALLETTA, Malta - More densely populated than Bangladesh, Malta has little room to house illegal immigrants. Even the newcomers, fleeing to Europe from war and poverty in Africa and Asia, know the island is approaching crisis point.
"There are 400,000 people here. The problem is the land isn't enough for the Maltese, so how about the refugees?" said Mohammed Abdull Osman, a 26-year-old Somali who like thousands of others landed in Malta in a fishing boat from Libya.
This year at least 1,800 immigrants have arrived in Malta -- a rocky outcrop barely twice the size of Washington, D.C. at just 122 square miles.
Read the whole article here.
Read more about this issue on MaltaMedia's special feature:
Lanċa Ġejja u Oħra Sejra: Malta and its migrations.
posted by princess buttercup at 12/16/2005 07:33:00 PM
This was already posted here 5 days ago!
Robert qed jinsa malajr!!!
Anon has not noticed that I have a guest blogger at the moment :)
I posted this article when it was published by Reuters UK last Tuesday. The same article, published by the main Reuters site a couple of days later, is the one that Coryse has linked to. There are minor changes in the text so nothing wrong if both stay.
Thanks Robert... I haven't had the time to read the whole blog yet! And since the date was correct, I thought it couldn't have neem uploaded before - apologies!
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