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Ethiopia seeks to extradite 80 'human smugglers'

The Ethiopian government says it is working with the International Criminal Police Organisation, or Interpol, to repatriate 80 suspected human smugglers as the country struggles to stem the wave of migrants leaving the country.

Wondimu Chama, chief of the Illegal Human Trafficking Crime Investigation Division of Ethiopia's federal police, yesterday said they succeeded in extraditing five suspects from Kenya, Sudan, Saudi Arabia and Tanzania.

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