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Italys interior ministry said the 60 tribal leaders notably the Tuareg of the southwest, the Toubou of the southeast, and the Arab tribe of Awlad Suleiman had reached the 12-point deal after 72 hours of secret talks in Rome.

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A representative from Libyas UN-backed Government of National Accord, which is based in Tripoli and controls western Libya, was also present.

A Libyan border patrol unit will be operational to monitor Libyas southern border of 5,000 kilometres (3,100 miles), Italian Interior Minister Marco Minniti told Italys La Stampa newspaper, one of several Italian media outlets reporting on the deal Sunday.

Securing Libyas southern border means securing Europes southern border, Minniti said.

Southern Libya is criss-crossed by smuggling routes for people, drugs and weapons. Since the 2011 uprising that ousted Moamer Kadhafi, a mosaic of tribal and ethnic forces is fighting for control of illicit trade and oil fields in the region.

Tuaregs control the border with southern Algeria, while further east, the Toubou operate along the borders with Chad and Sudan.

Arab tribes in the region have supported the authorities in western Libya, but they also maintain ties with a rival administration that holds sway in the east and regularly clash with the Toubou.

Fayez al-Sarraj, chief of the fragile GNA, has struggled to impose the governments authority, despite its backing by many political and military leaders.

The accord, whose details have not yet been released, is the latest in a series of deals European countries have sought to reduce migration from Libya, which has increased sharply in recent months.

The deal aims to combat an economy based on illicit drugs, which causes hundreds of deaths in the Mediterranean, thousands of desperate people looking for a better life, a populist push (in Europe) and a jihadist threat in the desert, according to the text of the agreement, quoted in the Corriere della Sera newspaper.

It also calls for job training programmes to keep young people from criminal activities.

Some 24,200 people have been rescued from the Mediterranean and registered at Italian ports so far this year, according to the Interior Ministry.

As part of an earlier agreement with the European Union, about 90 members of the Libyan coastguard are currently completing training under the EU, and Italy is preparing to return 10 coastguard boats to Libya that it seized in 2011. They are expected to be operational by the end of April or in early May.

In March, interior ministers from several EU and North African countries reached a deal with the GNA to stem flow of migrant and human smuggling, which included pledges of money, coastguard training and equipment for Libya.

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And officials are getting set to send 1.39billion (1.2billion) to countries outside the European Union (EU) as they try to stem migrant flows and increase security.

At a meeting of the Budgets Committee in Brussels on Monday, the parliament agreed to earmark the money which it will attempt to achieve using funds from member states including Britain.

The EU maintains that the UK will have to pay for commitments the EU has made up until the triggering of Article 50.

Unprecedented crises such as the migration crisis required a verification of policies and an adjustment of the budgetary system

Rapporteur Jan Olbrycht

Brussels officials say that commitments Britain made as part of the Multi-annual Financial Framework, which began in 2014 and runs until 2020, will have to be honoured.

But they voted in Brussels on Monday as part of an extraordinary meeting the first stage before sending it for the consent of the full house before the Council can formally adopt it by a unanimous vote.

Rapporteur Jan Olbrycht (EPP, PL) said: Parliament demanded this revision of the Multiannual Financial Framework because it considered it highly necessary due to a change of circumstances in Europe.

"And the Parliament was right.

"Unprecedented crises such as the migration crisis required a verification of policies and an adjustment of the budgetary system.

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"The enhanced flexibility we agreed to means more possibilities of action in European policies.

"This is the first step towards enabling the EU budgetary system more to adapt faster to needs within the seven-year period, which should be also one of the main mottos of the next financial framework.

But UKIP Home Affairs spokeswoman Jane Collins MEP said the EU is not being clear with member states on where the money will go.

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She said: "It looks like the EU is giving 1.39billion of taxpayers' money to third countries hoping they will stop migrants from coming into the EU.

"This policy of paying other countries to compensate for the EU's weak external border and open door policy for anyone saying they are from Syria has already failed with Turkey.

"What's more, I suspect that the money will be given to overseas organisations and we won't have any audited details of what happened to it - it could well go into the hands of people traffickers who already make millions trading in human lives.

"There is one policy which will stop another summer of misery and that is turning back boats filled with migrants in the Mediterranean. Frontex's policy of rescuing boats at sea is doing the trafficker's work for them.

"It demonstrates that the EU's external border policy and their new coastguard doesn't work.

"The Government needs to confirm that not one penny of UK money goes into this scheme. We need investment in our own border forces and coastal patrol."

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In January the European Border and Coast Guard became fully operational creating rapid reaction pools for 1,500 border guards and equipment and new pools for return intervention teams.

They also agreed to allow member states to maintain temporary controls for another three months.

In February they approved a facility for refugees in Turkey, handing more than 270million for the education of 70,000 Syrian refugee children.

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They also allocated 2.2billion out of the 3billion foreseen for 2016/17 allocated, 1.46billion contracted and 750million disbursed so far.

While earlier this month the Commission presented a new Action Plan on Return and a Recommendation to Member States on the efficient implementation of return procedures.

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Joseph Walker-Cousins, former head of the British Embassy in Benghazi, accused the EU of doing too little, too late in regards to the migrant crisis.

Giving evidence at the House of Lords EU External Affairs Sub-Committee, the diplomat said the officials should have been patrolling Libyas land borders 1,400km to the south.

But instead, he claimed, they chose to deal with migrants only when they were a stones throw from Europe.

Ultimately, the breakdown of border control is down to the collapse of the functioning government in Libya, he remarked.

Now a senior fellow at the Institute for Statecraft think-tank, Mr Walker-Cousins was critical of the failure of Western governments, including Britain, for failing to offer "leadership" after prompting the collapse of the Gadaffi regime.

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According to the Mail, Mr Walker-Cousins said: Up to a million migrants, if not more, are in the pipeline. They will take a long time to work their way through that pipeline but it is well-established.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office said it was working to end the Libyan smugglers businesses, with 414 boats destroyed and 109 traffickers arrested.

Mr Walker-Cousins said he didnt want to completely blame the EU for the crisis, but maintained there was a lack of care.

He added: Then we can begin to restore border security along the land borders and achieve the desired results in terms of stemming the flow of migrants and prevent them putting themselves at the mercy of those gruesome, merciless traffickers.

I dont want to say there is a vacuum of ownership and leadership at the political level but that sort of engagement and that appetite to own what is going on in Libya does not seem to exist now in a way it did then.

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No one really wants to own it it is someone elses mess.

The diplomats remarks follow a fierce argument involving four EU leaders who claimed Brussels officials threatened to cut their aid funding if they refused to accept more asylum seekers.

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Minister Mller said he is deeply concerned over the rise in migrants crossing from North Africa to Europe so far this year. In the first three months of 2017, the number of migrants has doubled from this period in 2016. Mller warned: If we calculate this, 300,000 to 400,000 people could arrive in Italy this year, Die Welt reports.

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Last year a record 180,000 migrants crossed the Mediterranean, and many thousands drownedon the way. According to Mller, Europe needs toadopt a radically different approach to African migration. Along with Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen, he reaffirmed a joint security agreement with countries in Africa this week.

Defence Ministervon der Leyen said: Without security, there is no development and no development without security and no peace. Both ministers urged the European Union (EU) to work closer with African nations politically, militarily, and economically.

In January, Mller proposed the bloc should adopt apolicy similar to the Marshall Plan which helped rebuild the German economy after the Second World War. He emphasised policiesthat would cut aid or put sanctions on countries for not taking migrants back, like the proposalbacked by German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere, couldincrease the number of people making the trip to Europe.

Last year, Mller warned the migrant crisis had barely begun saying he thought there could be a further eight to 10 million people who would try and come to Europe from the Middle East.

One politicianwho agrees that the migrant crisis is likely only beginning is President of the European Parliament Antonio Tajani, In a recent interview, Tajani said he thought there could be as many as 30 million more migrants from Africa coming to Europe in the next several years.

Tajani, likeMller, said he thought the EU should be more active in Africa and said EU member states should invest billions into struggling African economies.

The Geneva-based International Labour Organization (ILO) put out a report earlier this year saying the economies of African nations simply couldnt keep up with their high birth rates which would inevitably lead to many migrating to Europe to find work.

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The great exodus of our time. Refugees in their thousands flocked to Europes shores in search, in hope, of a better life, and an opportunity to escape their war-torn homelands of Africa and the Middle East.

Perhaps inevitably, upon arrival, the much sought after Europe, is not quite the picturesque paradise it may have once appeared to many of those making the dangerous route. After having made the treacherous journey across the Mediterranean Sea, or the long trek through the sparse Turkish countryside, those who reach Greece may be, by some, considered the lucky ones, yet even once they step into the Europe, the problems of these people dont end.

In Greece, the migrants are placed in temporary camps of squalor and danger. During the winter, especially in harsh winters, the migrants are more than likely susceptible to sub-zero conditions and consequently many are vulnerable to disease.

Enter the Three Peas Group, a local group of friends dedicated to helping those migrants in Greece. Formed in April 2016, the organisation volunteers in refugee camps across Greece and helps to house the more vulnerable families in apartments.

The group does a great amount for the families they have housed, including covering families financial costs and rents, supporting lessons to learn English, helping with putting migrants in contact with larger organisations, and giving advice where possible.

Over the groups eleven-month history, the group has managed to place 25 families in flats, thats 100 people. However, whilst the action within the camps is key, the organisations focus also lies in the awareness of the public back here in the UK.

On the 22nd March 2017, the Three Peas organisation, visited the First Richmond Cub Pack, to inform the children about the conditions the migrants face within the camps. They explained how the group helps migrants by participating in larger projects, by fundraising, but perhaps most importantly by giving refugees their support, and allowing the refugees to have somebody to talk to.

After the talk at First Richmond, I talked to one of the volunteers at Three Peas, Martina Riot, who talked to me about the difficulties of being granted entry into the EU: [The refugees] all have to register by Skype. The problem is you have a certain time slot during the week, and all the people that have arrived in Greece, have to call up to get this interview so that they can get their first papers to be legally there.

Then they have to wait for another appointment, to have another interview, where they have to define whether they want to go for relocation in Europe, or if they want to go for family reunification so if they have somebody already there. So, it can take from six months, thatll be quick, to a year. We have met some people who arrived in February last year, and are still in Greece.

But what can the public do about this crisis? To many, this issue is one that seems impossible to deal with. Officials in Westminster and Brussels seem to have no answer to the tide of migrants stuck in Southern Europe, and therefore it seems implausible that we as individuals are able to help.

Martina believes that the most effective way for people to get involved is to raise awareness, and to visit the camps in Greece yourself, so to be able to see the crisis with your own eyes. If you have been there once, she says, You will never step back, you will continue to support [them].

After having heard the talk, the First Richmond Scout Group helped raise awareness for the migrants, and for local homeless people by completing several activities throughout Saturday 25th, showing what people can do, and the message people can spread if they get talking about these important issues.

Sometimes, it can be hard, hidden away in the cosiness of Richmond-Upon-Thames to remember the cold and desperate truth of the plight of many of these people who risk their lives to create a new life, only to be stopped at the front door of where theyve been longing to reach. It can be difficult to realise that this isnt half-way across the world, but only a three-hour flight from here. It is clear more awareness does need to be spread for these people, and the Three Peas Group are an excellent example of how that should be done.

By Matthew Lambert from Orleans Park School

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