Eastern Libya Repatriates 602 Migrants to Chad

Libya’s eastern security authority repatriated 602 migrants to Chad on Wednesday as part of a broader campaign focused on homeland and border protection, according to Abdulmenam al-Ghomati, spokesperson for the interior ministry’s anti-illegal migration agency.

Security forces operating across territory controlled by military commander Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan National Army apprehended the individuals during recent sweeps and border-interception operations.

Ghomati noted that authorities spent a day and a half transporting the migrants by truck to the Chadian border.

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Images released by the agency’s media office in Benghazi showed pickup trucks carrying dozens of deportees through remote terrain toward Chad, while Ghomati confirmed that troops are continuing the crackdown under orders from Deputy Commander-in-Chief Saddam Haftar to raid and clear migrant-rented homes inside residential neighbourhoods.

Eastern Libya repatriates 602 migrants to Chad (News Central TV) — Eastern Libya repatriates 602 migrants to Chad.  Credit: Arab Weekly

Since the 2011 uprising that toppled Muammar Gaddafi, politically divided Libya has served as a primary transit hub for people fleeing conflict and poverty toward Europe across the Sahara Desert and the Mediterranean Sea.

United Nations data collected in May and June estimates that Libya’s 100 municipalities currently host more than 900,000 migrants.

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