Tripoli – Continued

Publication date: July 17, 2023 11:03 PM Saudi Arabia.

Libyan authorities rescued migrants from sub-Saharan Tunisia. Libyan border guards said they had rescued at least 50 migrants over the past few days, abandoned to their fate in the sun at temperatures over 40 degrees Celsius. After a fight broke out on July 3 in Sfax between Tunisians and sub-Saharan African immigrants in which a Tunisian citizen was killed, hundreds of African immigrants were expelled from Tunisia’s second largest city and the main entry point for illegal immigration to Europe. And on Sunday, journalists from the French Press Agency saw a group of sub-Saharan African immigrants who appeared to be suffering from exhaustion and dehydration after being left to fend for themselves in a deserted desert near the Tunisian-Libyan border. . Libyan border guards found these migrants near the city of Al-Assa, about 150 km southwest of the capital Tripoli and about 15 km from the Libyan-Tunisian border. “The number of immigrants is increasing day by day,” Muhammad Abu Snaina of the Libyan border guard told AFP, stressing that in recent days he and his comrades have rescued “between 50 and 70 immigrants” they crossed through the desert. Ramadan Ben Omar, spokesman for the Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights, confirmed that between 100 and 150 immigrants, including children and women, are still in the Libyan border areas. And the Tunisian judiciary announced on Tuesday that two bodies of migrants had been found on the border with Algeria. And on Friday, Tunisian non-governmental organizations issued a call to save migrants expelled from Sfax from their “catastrophic” situation by moving “for urgent placement in centers.”