Italy to send mission to Niger (2)

(ANSA) - Rome, December 27 - Italy is to send a military mission to Niger to fight human traffickers, Premier Paolo Gentiloni said Wednesday.
    He said the mission would be "non-combat".
    Meanwhile migrant arrivals by boat from Libya resumed with 370 coming over on Christmas Eve.
    In a first, however, 162 asylum seekers flew into Rome from Libya in the first humanitarian corridor from the north African country.