{"id":7773,"date":"2013-08-05T09:45:16","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T09:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/disnaija.com\/nigeria-news\/malta-stops-tanker-carrying-102-african-migrants\/"},"modified":"2013-08-05T09:45:16","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T09:45:16","slug":"malta-stops-tanker-carrying-102-african-migrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/malta-stops-tanker-carrying-102-african-migrants\/","title":{"rendered":"Malta Stops Tanker Carrying 102 African Migrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fb-like-box\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/DisNaija\" data-width=\"292\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-stream=\"false\" data-header=\"true\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"http:\/\/disnaija.com\" data-send=\"true\" data-width=\"200\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-action=\"recommend\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-76447\" title=\"malta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.channelstv.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/malta-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><em><strong>Malta said on Monday that it had refused entry to a tanker carrying 102 African migrants.<\/strong><\/em>  The Mediterranean island has faced a record influx of African migrants, with 1,000 having arrived in the past month.  The Liberian-registered tanker had picked up the 102 migrants about 45 nautical miles off the Libyan coast, but was stopped by a Maltese vessel just outside the island&#8217;s territorial waters, the home affairs ministry said.  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The Liberian-registered tanker had picked up the 102 migrants about 45 nautical miles off the Libyan coast, but was stopped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58],"tags":[579,4543,8595,8224,281,814],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7773"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/disnaija.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}