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Libya Deports 170 Illegal Sudanese Migrants

Libyan authorities put around 170 illegal Sudanese migrants on a flight back to Sudan on Thursday as part of a voluntary repatriation programme. Migrants who … Continue reading Libya Deports 170 Illegal Sudanese Migrants


various of migrants sitting
various of migrants sitting

Libyan authorities put around 170 illegal Sudanese migrants on a flight back to Sudan on Thursday as part of a voluntary repatriation programme.

Migrants who attempt journeys to Europe but are intercepted by Libya’s coastguard or whose boats capsize in the Mediterranean are rescued and sent to detention centres across the country.

Many of these centres have become over-packed and no longer have the necessary space to accommodate the large influx of illegal migrants, especially during the warm summer months.

But the International Organization for Migration (IOM) gives these migrants the option of going back home, and twice a week organizes travel documents and private planes to various destinations in Africa.

The voluntary return programme takes weeks of communications with the embassies of these migrants, mostly from Sub-Saharan and West Africa, to facilitate their return.

Hundreds of migrants have already been sent home this year.

Reuters