Libya: Away Alone - Unaccompanied Children Find Shelter After Fleeing Libya

press release

Sallum, Egypt — Big, beautiful eyes barely hide the pain she's been through. Rosie has lived in three countries - Ethiopia, Sudan and Libya. The teenager never had a chance to set down roots, driven out of each country to save herself, always in search of somewhere to call home.

But the 17-year-old Ethiopian refugee was also all on her own, encountered at the depressing border crossing town of Sallum in north-west Egypt after fleeing from war-torn Libya. She was not the only unaccompanied minor stranded there.

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