On Thursday, the Libyan Anti-Illegal Immigration Service organized land convoys to the eastern and southern borders of the country, to return more than 200 immigrants to their countries of origin, in an unusual coordination between the competing authorities in eastern and western Libya. Upon their arrival in Ajdabiya (east), the Egyptians will be taken back to the Salloum border crossing while the Chadians and Sudanese will take the road to Kufra (south) and then Owainat on the border with Sudan. The United Nations agencies were interested in returning refugees and migrants to their countries, but since an agreement was recently signed between the leaderships of western, southern and eastern Libya, the apparatus responsible for these referrals of the Ministry of Interior has become working in a unified manner. More than 20,000 migrants were returned to Libya from the beginning of this year until last month, while the fate of 714 remained missing, and more than 400 migrants drowned, according to the International Organization for Migration. Most of the migrants across Libya’s vast desert border are from Sudan, Chad, Niger and Egypt.

Source: Libya Today November 25, 2022 02:03 UTC