{"id":37072,"date":"2014-08-05T13:30:03","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T13:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=37072"},"modified":"2014-08-05T12:01:51","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T12:01:51","slug":"african-migrants-clash-in-french-port-of-calais","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=37072","title":{"rendered":"African migrants clash in French port of Calais"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\">Clashes between African migrants in the French port city of Calais have left more than 50 people injured.<\/p>\n<p>A fight which started on Monday evening at a food distribution centre was initially broken up by police but later continued into the night.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of migrants live in informal camps in the Calais port, trying to cross into Britain illegally.<\/p>\n<p>French police have spent months trying to break up the camps, but the migrants say they have nowhere else to go.<\/p>\n<p>The latest fight between Sudanese and Eritrean migrants was broken up for the second time once riot police were deployed.<\/p>\n<p>A similar incident on Sunday left about 13 people injured.<\/p>\n<p>In May authorities attempted to evacuate the migrants from camps built near the port following court rulings, but many have simply moved to different areas in the city.<\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An African migrant carries a foam mattress in a tent camp close the city hall in Calais\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/76750000\/jpg\/_76750048_76749513.jpg\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" \/><\/div>\n<div>The migrants live in camps close the Calais city centre<\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Afghan migrant Rahman Jan Safi prepares a meal for asylum seekers in Calais, northern France\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/76749000\/jpg\/_76749512_76749511.jpg\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" \/><\/div>\n<div>They rely on themselves for food as well as volunteers at a food distribution centre<\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"An Eritrean migrant cooks eggs outside his shelter in the &quot;jungle&quot; close to a chemical factory in Calais\" src=\"http:\/\/news.bbcimg.co.uk\/media\/images\/76749000\/jpg\/_76749510_76749509.jpg\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" \/><\/div>\n<div>The migrants are hoping to cross the Channel to get to Britain<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Source: BBC<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clashes between African migrants in the French port city of Calais have left more than 50 people injured. A fight which started on Monday evening at a food distribution centre was initially broken up by police but later continued into the night. Hundreds of migrants live in informal camps in the Calais port, trying to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":37074,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-37072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}