The United Nations High Commissioner of Refugees (UNHCR) on Friday said that 43 refugees have been evacuated from Libya to Niger. “43 refugees safely landed in Niger in the latest UNHCR humanitarian evacuation from Libya and will be resettled to Switzerland in a later stage,” UNHCR tweeted earlier Friday. A few days ago, the UNHCR announced the evacuation of 306 refugees from Libya to Rwanda. But with thousands of refugees still at risk in detention centers and urban areas in Libya, we need states to help us get more refugees out of the country much more quickly,” said Vincent Cochetel, UNHCR special envoy for the central Mediterranean. Libya’s east-based army and the UN-backed government have been fighting since early April over control of Tripoli, which has claimed many lives including immigrants.

Source: The North Africa Journal November 29, 2019 02:37 UTC