SPAIN-AFRICA:  Support Development, Fight Trafficking Rings to Curb Migration
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MADRID, Sep 21 (IPS) - Supporting the private sector in Africa, as Spanish  businesses agreed to do this week, and combating people  trafficking mafias is the way to promote development and prevent  brain drain from African countries.
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LISBON, Dec 6  (IPS) - On the eve of the second Africa-European Union  summit, there is broad agreement on the need to defend human  rights, above all else. But academics, analysts and activists  from both continents harbour serious doubts that this noble aim  will find root in reality.
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WASHINGTON, Sep 29 (IPS) - Predominantly foreign male workers who relocated to  build massive oil and gas projects, combined with feeble gender  policies, have brought prostitution, human trafficking, poverty,  HIV/AIDS and greater burdens for local communities around those  projects, new research finds.
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MADRID, Sep 25  (IPS) - Several popular Spanish rock groups helped collect  600,000 signatures and delivered them to the government Tuesday  in support of an international campaign calling for the Spanish  government to modify its trade policy towards Africa and  eliminate restrictions on imports from that region.
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MADRID (International Herald-Tribune) - The authorities arrested six North Africans in Spain on Wednesday on suspicion of belonging to an international network that promotes jihad on the Internet and recruits fighters, the Interior Ministry announced. Spain's rural police force, Guarda Civil, said it detained five men and a woman in Burgos Province in northern Spain. Authorities searched six houses and a butcher's shop run by the men and confiscated documents and computer hard drives, the ministry said in its statement.
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Ministers from southern Europe met here to thrash out ways of stemming the flow of illegal immigrants arriving on the shores of their countries after perilous sea crossings from Africa.
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NEW YORK, May 31 (IPS) - Africa's robust diaspora in Europe will soon  have an investment facility to help people make  direct  investments to better develop their home countries thanks to a  new study by the  Brussels-based Africa Caribbean Pacific (ACP)  Business Climate (BizClim) facility.
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The Spanish government has added emotional television adverts to its arsenal of measures to combat illegal immigration from Africa.
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An OSCE-sponsored conference on improving human rights protection for trafficking victims concluded by calling on governments around the world to do more to stop the smuggling and exploitation of people.
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West Africa is becoming a hub for immigrants, especially Southeast Asians, with a goal of getting into Europe by reaching Spain's Canary Islands.
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Four men arrested on suspicion of organizing terrorist training camps in Britain were tracked by Spanish investigators earlier this year as they traveled through Spain from France en route to North Africa, officials said Monday.
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Spain is firmly committed to developing a stronger relationship with Morocco that will impact on the development of both nations, King Juan Carlos of Spain said.
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Spain's prime minister calls for international efforts to resolve divisions between the Western and Muslim world.
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Spain is to pay out citizens who were forced to flee abroad as children during the 1930s civil war.
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Poor immigration control on South Africa&#39;s borders is believed to have contributed to the rapid spread of HIV/Aids in the country.
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BRUSSELS, Jan 31  (IPS) - Conscious that trade issues had become a major  source of friction between African countries and their former  colonial overlords, the European Commission President JosÃ© Manuel  Barroso extended an olive branch in December.
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The BBC's Martha Dixon sees how Spain struggles to deal with illegal immigrants in the Canary Islands.