Hundreds of migrants from sub-Saharan African countries were forcibly taken to desert and hostile areas bordering Libya and Algeria after racial unrest in early July in Sfax, Tunisia's second-largest city. The Libyan border agents gave them water and took the migrants -- women and children first -- to a shelter, the correspondents said. "We found another group with children and women," added the officer, pointing towards the Tunisian border several hundred metres (yards) away. Without help from the Libyan border guards, "we would die in the desert," the man said, adding he would like to return to Tunisia where his wife and children remain. Tunisian rights groups said on Friday that between 100 and 150 migrants, including women and children, were still stuck on the border with Libya.

Source: Libya Today July 16, 2023 17:41 UTC