AFP on Sunday witnessed the border guards rescue around 100 men and women from an uninhabited zone near Sebkhat al-Magta, a salt lake along the Libya-Tunisia border. They said they had been forced there by Tunisian security forces. Faced with the influx, Libyans from the border guards Battalion 19 of the army, and a unit against Saharan immigration, have been patrolling daily. They walk, they said, in the direction that the Tunisian security forces told them to go— towards Libya. Humanitarian groups in Libya reached by AFP gave a death toll of at least 17 over the past three weeks.

Source: The North Africa Journal July 31, 2023 14:29 UTC