UN resumes refugee evacuations from Libya to Niger
The UN refugee agency resumed evacuations of migrants from Libya on Tuesday, flying 132 mostly Eritrean refugees and asylum seekers to Niger for resettlement in third countries. UNHCR previously evacuated about 1,000 refugees and asylum seekers to Niger, but the process had been suspended because of delays in resettling them in Western countries. Several hundred refugees and asylum seekers have been resettled directly from Libya, but numbers have been limited […]
