Euronews: Nearly a thousand migrants were rescued on Sunday by the Libyan coastguard and ten bodies recovered from the sea. Mostly from sub-Saharan Africa, the 948 migrants had taken to sea in three inflatable boats with hopes of reaching Europe.
Since last week almost two thousand migrants have been brought back to Libya.
A few of the thousands of migrants in the North African state who have beeen determined to be refugees by the UN’s refugee agency have been sent to Niger on Libya’s southern border.
Yesterday, 128 refugees were evacuated from #Libya to UNHCR's Emergency Transit Facility in Niger – a total of 1858 refugees have been evacuated out of Libya since November 2017 @Refugees pic.twitter.com/n8EyJyFJFR
— UNHCR Libya (@UNHCRLibya) June 25, 2018
The move to Niger is designed to protect refugees and other vulnerable migrants who travel to Libya.
Many are trapped in smuggling networks or detention centres where they are exposed to a range of abuses including rape and torture that have been widely documented by human rights organisations and U.N. agencies.
