"I fled one war only to find another war," sighed Alawia, a mother in her forties. The Sudanese woman from Darfur was living in Saadia southwest of Tripoli with her three children when the clashes erupted. For him, like many others at the makeshift shelter, the school is the umpteenth stop of a painful odyssey. Abdelrassoul said he was kidnapped three times in Libya before arriving to Tripoli in September with plans "to cross the sea to Europe". SHARED GOALMost migrants in Libya share the same goal -- Europe -- hoping their perilous journeys will not have been in vain.

Source: Daily Nation April 25, 2019 15:52 UTC