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Claudine Nsoe, a 29-year-old mother of two from Cameroon, is one of the thousands of migrants who have arrived this week on the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa, a first port of call for those crossing the Mediterranean from North Africa.

LAMPEDUSA, Sept 15 - Claudine Nsoe, a 29-year-old mother of two from Cameroon, is one of the thousands of migrants who have arrived this week on the tiny Italian island ofNsoe spoke to Reuters while she was camped outside the island's reception centre, which has an official capacity of around 400 but in the last few days has been crammed with as many as 7,000 migrants.

"I hope the situation improves and they let us leave from here because the living conditions here are not easy. We sleep in the open air, in the sun, and in the cold," Nsoe said while sitting on a camp bed distributed by the Italian Red Cross.Claudine Nsoe, 29, from Cameroon, stands outside with her son Prince on the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, Italy, September 15, 2023. REUTERS/Yara Nardi"Therefore we want to leave. Wherever that might be, we must go," she added.

The migrants who land in Lampedusa are transferred by ferry, military ship or plane to the larger island of Sicily and from there are spread around the country. Many of them want to reach northern Europe, but are often pushed back at Italy's borders.

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