Nigerians stuck in Libya return home with a songMore than 150 Nigerians, some of them in tears, broke out in song as they touched down on home soil, after months stuck in Libya waiting to try to get to Europe. “Some are in prison for so long, six months, seven months… I was put in a cell, like four, five months before I came back,” he told AFP. – Increasing numbers –Four plane-loads of Nigerian migrants have now flown back from Libya in less than two months. Since the start of the year, 660 people in total have been helped to return voluntarily. In 2016, a total of 37,551 Nigerians managed to get to the Italian coast, according to the IOM, more than those from Eritrea, Ivory Coast and The Gambia.

Source: Libya Today March 25, 2017 18:11 UTC