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Nigeria evacuates 750 stranded West Africans

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Authorities in Nigeria say more than 750 people from eight West African countries, who were stranded at Calabar port when their ship made an emergency berthing on Christmas were Saturday evacuated to their respective countries by road.

Cross River State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) said that the people were onboard a ship making stopovers along the coast of West Africa “when their passenger vessel… made an emergency berthing” after one of its engines broke down on December 25.

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A convoy of buses conveyed the stranded nationals of Togo, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Mali, Niger and Guinea to their various countries, SEMA said.

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