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Detained Migrants, Babies Saved From Libya Clashes in Airlift to Rome

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05/31/19
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Nearly 150 migrants from East Africa, including 65 minors and 13 babies under one, were rescued from conflict-torn Libya and airlifted to Rome on Thursday by the U.N. refugee agency.

“Due to the violent clashes and deteriorating security conditions in Tripoli, 149 refugees and vulnerable asylum seekers were evacuated and transferred to Rome,” the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said.

Those airlifted to safety – including a two-month-old infant – came from Eritrea, Somalia, Sudan, and Ethiopia, it said.

“After months spent in desperate conditions in detention centers,” and trapped by renewed fighting in the North African country, many were suffering from malnutrition or needed medical attention, UNHCR said.

“Other evacuation operations are needed,” the UNHCR mission head in Libya, Jean-Paul Cavalieri, said.

“These operations represent a lifeline for refugees, for whom the only way to escape is to entrust their lives to unscrupulous traffickers in order to cross the Mediterranean,” he said.

✈️ ready to take off.
The 149 refugees evacuated by UNHCR from Libya ???????? to Italy ???????? went through a lot.
From failed attempts to cross by sea, to languishing in squalid detention centres for irregularly entring Libya while escaping war & persecution.
We wish them all the best! pic.twitter.com/obrM5udE2i

— UNHCR Libya (@UNHCRLibya) May 31, 2019

Earlier this week, 62 people from Syria, Sudan, and Somalia were evacuated from Tripoli to the UNHCR Emergency Transit Center in Timisoara, Romania, where they were to receive medical care before going on to Norway.

The U.N. agency said it was grateful to states that have offered evacuation opportunities, but warned that “at present, the number of new detainees is increasing much faster than the number of those being evacuated.”

Nearly 1,000 people have been evacuated from Libya or resettled so far in 2019, while in May alone more than 1,200 people were returned by the Libyan coast guard after being intercepted trying to cross the Mediterranean, it said.

Clashes between rival forces in Libya and heavy bombardments have forced more than 83,000 Libyans to flee their homes since the start of April, according to the U.N.

More than 2,400 have also been wounded, while 100,000 people are feared trapped by the clashes raging on the outskirts of Tripoli, according to the World Health Organization.

Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar, who is leading a military offensive against the U.N.-recognised government in Tripoli, said Sunday he will continue fighting until militias in the city laid down their arms.


 

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