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Libya's Rising Tide of Sub-Saharan Migrants

As the country grapples with consolidating a formal government structure, streams of migrants and refugees from countries like Chad, Somalia, Eritrea and Ethiopia remains in limbo in the desert town of Kufra.

  • Libya:   Deserting Refugees in the Sahara

    IPS, 13 May 2012

    As dusk settles over the isolated Saharan town Kufra, young guards order a few hundred migrants lined up at a detention centre to chant "Libya free, Chadians out", before they… Read more »

Alexis Duclos/UNHCR

Lost in the desert: There is no legal framework to differentiate between economic migrants and asylum seekers in trading town of Kufra.

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