FBI offers just $1000 to whistleblower on wanted Nigerian

<figure class="wp-caption aligncenter" id="attachment_67548" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #181818; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px auto 20px; max-width: 100%; width: 491px;"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-67548" height="562" sizes="(max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px" src="http://18694-presscdn.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Kelechi-Declan-James.jpg" srcset="http://18694-presscdn.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Kelechi-Declan-James.jpg 491w, http://18694-presscdn.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Kelechi-Declan-James-262x300.jpg 262w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="491" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 0px;">Kelechi Declan James</figcaption></figure><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> The United States Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) has offered a paltry $1000 reward to whistleblowers who can offer information to arrest a Nigerian New Yorker, 32 year-old Kelechi Declan James.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> The agency has declared Kelechi wanted for allegedly scamming victims of more than $5 million.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> A statement on FBI website reads: “FBI agents are looking for the public’s assistance in locating Kelechi Declan James. He has federal criminal charges against him from an investigation by FBI New York’s Cyber Crime Task Force.”</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> <img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-67550 aligncenter" height="480" sizes="(max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px" src="http://18694-presscdn.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Kelechi-Declan-James-3.jpg" srcset="http://18694-presscdn.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Kelechi-Declan-James-3.jpg 406w, http://18694-presscdn.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Kelechi-Declan-James-3-254x300.jpg 254w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0px auto 20px; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="406" /></div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> “James is known to frequent the Brooklyn neighbourhoods of East New York (Crescent Street and Loring Avenue; Vermont Street between Blake Avenue and Dumont Avenue), Brownsville, Bedford-Stuyvesant (MacDougal and Hull Streets), Crown Heights (Park Place and Utica Avenue), Flatbush (E 29th and Avenue D), and East Flatbush (East 51st and Winthrop Street). The FBI is offering a $1,000 reward for information that leads to his arrest.</div> <figure class="wp-caption alignleft" id="attachment_67549" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #181818; float: left; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; margin: 5px 20px 5px 0px; max-width: 100%; width: 294px;"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-67549" height="619" sizes="(max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px" src="http://18694-presscdn.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Kelechi-Declan-James-2.jpg" srcset="http://18694-presscdn.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Kelechi-Declan-James-2.jpg 294w, http://18694-presscdn.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Kelechi-Declan-James-2-142x300.jpg 142w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="294" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 0px;">Kelechi Declan James</figcaption></figure><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> “James is 32 years old, 6’0” tall, and approximately 175 pounds. He is a Nigerian national, has brown eyes and black hair, and may have a beard. Anyone with information as to the whereabouts of James is urged to contact law enforcement immediately. The FBI can be reached 24 hours a day at (212) 384-1000. He is not considered to be violent in nature.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> “As alleged in a complaint sworn out of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, James, along with four other co-conspirators, ran a business e-mail compromise scheme that resulted victim losses of more than $5 million for their victims.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> “As part of scheme, James and his co-conspirators defrauded victims across the U.S. by tricking them into wiring money to bank accounts the victims believed were owned by family members, friends, or business associates. They did this in two ways: by overtaking an e-mail account of an individual trusted by the victim and then requesting money be wired to a bank account; or by developing a relationship of trust with victim like an Internet romance and then asking the victim to wire money.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> “As soon as the money was wired, it would be moved from one account to another, and the funds would be withdrawn. James’s role in this scheme was to withdraw the money from bank accounts.”</div>

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font-family: "PT Serif", "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.6;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 30px;"> <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Nollywood actor Victor Olaiya who is a son of octogenarian and enterprising highlife musician, Sir Victor Olaiya, was recently involved in a ghastly motor accident that nearly took his life.</strong></div> </section><div class="art-mobile-bt article-banner" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 20px 0px;"> <div class="banner-sidebar" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <div class="bannergroup" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: center;"> <div class="banneritem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <div class="clr" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <section class="mcon article-content clearfix" itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.6;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; 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min-height: 1px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 20px; position: relative;"> </div> </div> <div class="row article-main" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: -20px;"> <div class="article-content-main col-lg-12 " style="box-sizing: border-box; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 20px; position: relative;"> <section class="art-mobile-bt article-content clearfix" itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.6;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 30px;"> <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Nollywood actor Victor Olaiya who is a son of octogenarian and enterprising highlife musician, Sir Victor Olaiya, was recently involved in a ghastly motor accident that nearly took his life.</strong></div> </section><div class="art-mobile-bt article-banner" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 20px 0px;"> <div class="banner-sidebar" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <div class="bannergroup" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: center;"> <div class="banneritem" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <div class="clr" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <section class="mcon article-content clearfix" itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "PT Serif", "Times New Roman", Times, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.6;"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 30px;"> <br />Report has it that Ayo Olaiya is currently recuperating at an undisclosed hospital in Lagos.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 30px;"> The gory motor accident which took place in an obscure area of Lagos State yesterday night was reportedly devastating.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />According to Pulse has learned that fans lovers of the actor and his colleagues have since been praying for his speedy recovery.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 30px;"> Eyewitness say Ayo Olaiya, was returning from a movie shoot location before the unfortunate incident happened.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; 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A/Ibom: Turkish expatriates abductors demand N200m

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Gunmen have continually kidnapped foreigners Abductors of two Turkish expatriates in Akwa Ibom have demanded N200 million to release them. ...

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Primate wants herdsmen disarmed

<figure class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_57951" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #181818; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; max-width: 100%; width: 800px;"><img alt="Anglican Primate Nicholas Okoh" class="wp-image-57951 size-full" height="531" sizes="(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px" src="http://18694-presscdn.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Anglican-Primate-Nicholas-Okoh.jpg" srcset="http://18694-presscdn.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Anglican-Primate-Nicholas-Okoh.jpg 800w, http://18694-presscdn.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Anglican-Primate-Nicholas-Okoh-300x199.jpg 300w, http://18694-presscdn.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Anglican-Primate-Nicholas-Okoh-768x510.jpg 768w, http://18694-presscdn.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Anglican-Primate-Nicholas-Okoh-165x110.jpg 165w, http://18694-presscdn.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Anglican-Primate-Nicholas-Okoh-270x180.jpg 270w, http://18694-presscdn.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Anglican-Primate-Nicholas-Okoh-480x320.jpg 480w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="800" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 0px;">Anglican Primate Nicholas Okoh</figcaption></figure><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> Most Rev. Nicholas Okoh, Primate, Church of all Nigeria (Anglican Communion), has called on the Federal Government to disarm herdsmen to reduce the affliction of the rural people.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> Okoh made the call at Cathedral Church of Advent during the Easter Service on Sunday in Abuja.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> The cleric said that disarming the herdsmen should not be a big deal, since the nation has capable Armed forces.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> He expressed bitterness that the issue of the new generation herdsmen had become a problem as they have tormented many communities and forced local people to vacate their farmland.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> “I call on the government to disarm the new generation of herdsmen. We appeal to those who have been elected to pay attention to this matter because the people are under affliction</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> “We have a standing army and it is no big deal for them to disarm these people. It is a minor operation and we have capable standing army that can do that job.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> “Why are we watching our citizens shedding tears and innocent blood while the herdsmen enjoy it, it is better they are disarmed.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> “It is really tormenting many communities and if there is any problem at all in this country now, it is this problem.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> Okoh noted that the torments have made it more difficult for villagers to farm because these herdsmen had affected the local agricultural development.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> “As long as issues affecting people like this are not treated for whatever reason not known, it will be difficult for people because for instance the local agricultural development has been affected.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> “The local people can no longer go to the farm easily and in this country it is the local farmers who farm, who produce the large quantity of food we consume in the cities.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> “The herdsmen have taken over. They are afraid to go to the farm. If this problem is not solved, where is progress? Where is prosperity? Where is peace?</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> Talking about Easter, Okoh advised that no matter the difficulties that Nigerians were faced with, they should learn to overcome every situation in life, like Jesus Christ did.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> “We can overcome. Even the present set back whether you call it recession or herdsmen challenge or medical challenge.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> “We can overcome if we are united; if people are made to have a sense of belonging; if we forge ahead together; we can overcome any difficulty coming from any where,’’ Okoh said.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> In his remark, Rev. William Okoye, General Overseer, All Christian Fellowship Mission (ACFM), also explained that with the resurrection, Jesus Christ had paid the price for the sins of His people.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> According to him, in the face of whatever situation we find ourselves as a nation we have to recognise that we are in the world.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> “Jesus said that in the world you have tribulation. These things are part of life. Our problems are meant to bring us closer to God not to drive us away from Him.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> “Concerning the season that we are in, it is a season of celebration, victory of Jesus Christ over sin, over death, over the devil and to overcome the circumstances of life,” he said.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> Senior Special Apostle Idika Kalu, Chairman, Abuja Province Eternal Sacred Order of Cherubim and Seraphim, advised Christians to be happy because Jesus Christ was risen and celebrated all over the world.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> He explained that Easter was to commemorate the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ on the Cross of Calvary.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> Kalu noted that the resurrection of Christ that took place over 2000 years ago had made Christians to be free from bondage and liberated from the devil.</div>

Anglican Primate Nicholas Okoh Most Rev. Nicholas Okoh, Primate, Church of all Nigeria (Anglican Communion), has called on the Federal Gove...

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Thousands saved, 20 dead off Libya coast

<figure class="wp-caption alignnone" id="attachment_67558" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #181818; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; max-width: 100%; width: 600px;"><img alt="" class="size-full wp-image-67558" height="337" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" src="http://18694-presscdn.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Libya.jpg" srcset="http://18694-presscdn.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Libya.jpg 600w, http://18694-presscdn.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Libya-300x169.jpg 300w" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle;" width="600" /><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 16px; margin-top: 0px;">Thousands of illegal migrants rescued off Libya coast</figcaption></figure><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> Thousands of migrants have been saved from the sea near Libya  between Friday and Sunday during the Easter by rescue workers, but 20 died, including an eight-year-old.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> According to<a href="http://www.africareview.com/news/Thousands-saved-off-Libyan-coast-over-Easter/979180-3892220-686eknz/index.html" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1193f6; line-height: inherit; outline: none; text-decoration-line: none; transition: opacity 0.2s ease-in-out, color 0.1s ease-in-out;"> Africa Review</a>, more than 2,000 people were rescued on Friday and 3,000 on Saturday in dozens of separate rescues, the Italian Coast Guard said.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> But at least 20 drowned as aid workers struggled to rescue more than 1,500 migrants in one ongoing operation.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> An eight-year-old boy was among the dead, rescue workers said.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> The Migrant Offshore Aid Station (Moas) said its rescue started in the early hours of Saturday and had continued non-stop into Sunday afternoon.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> The group said it had rescued at least 453 people, but more than 1,000 remained in danger.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> A Reuters photographer on board the Phoenix, a ship run by Moas, counted at least 20 bodies during the rescue.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> Mr Chris Catrambone, one of the founders of Moas, said it had requested “urgent assistance” on Saturday morning.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> “Our crew says they’ve never seen anything like it,” the organisation tweeted.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> Italian NGO Sea Eye and the German group Jugend Rettet were also aiding the rescue attempt.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> Doctors without Borders (MSF) said its rescue boats Prudence and Aquarius had rescued about 1,000 people during Friday’s operations, during which one migrant is believed to have died.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> The improving Spring weather may have factored into the sudden surge of ocean crossings.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> The Libyan coastline remains a hot spot for such rescues, as unscrupulous smugglers crowd wooden boats or inflatable dinghies with hundreds of desperate migrants.</div> <div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212121; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18px; line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 30px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizeLegibility;"> At least 97 migrants died the previous Thursday, when their boat sank. Just 23 men were rescued, clinging to a flotation device. In late February, the bodies of 87 people washed ashore in a Libyan city.</div>

Thousands of illegal migrants rescued off Libya coast Thousands of migrants have been saved from the sea near Libya  between Friday and Sun...

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