Mali - On Thursday, 2 March, IOM helped 163 stranded Malian migrants – 151 adults, seven children, five infants – return home on a charter flight from Tripoli, Libya. Left alone and unable to earn enough money to follow her husband to Europe, she also decided to return voluntarily return home with IOM. IOM’s protection unit traced his family and once back in Mali, IOM Mali staff will escort him back to his parents in a village outside Bamako. So far in 2017, IOM Libya has helped 819 stranded migrants return to their countries of origin. For further information, please contact IOM Libya.

Source: Libya Today March 03, 2017 11:15 UTC