Italy and EU pledge finance for migrant camps in LibyaItaly and the European Union have pledged to finance migrant camps in Libya run by the U.N.-backed government, an agreement showed on Friday, as part of a wider European Union drive to stem immigration from Africa. But the U.N. refugee agency said running camps where migrants and refugees are detained in Libya would mean forcing them to live in poor conditions and would put them further risk of abuse. In 2016, some 4,500 are estimated to have perished attempting to cross from North Africa to Italy. Italy would provide training to camp personnel, medicine and medical supplies for the migrants, it said. "Running camps in Libya would mean keeping migrants in inhumane conditions and putting them further at risk," Carlotta Sami, a spokeswoman for the U.N. refugee agency, told Reuters.

Source: Libya Today February 03, 2017 14:35 UTC