Operation Under Way to Rescue Libya Migrants, African Union Says
An African migrant woman and children wait at the Tariq Al-Matar detention center on the outskirts of Tripoli on Nov. 27, 2017.
Photographer: Taha Jawashi/AFP via Getty Images
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Leaders from Europe and Africa agreed on an emergency plan to start with the evacuation of as many as 700,000 migrants from Libya.
The repatriation of 3,800 mostly West African migrants from a camp in Tripoli will commence “immediately,” African Union Commission Chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat told reporters Thursday in Abidjan, the commercial capital of Ivory Coast. The AU estimates that 400,000 to 700,000 migrants are stuck in Libya whose authorities identified at least 42 camps, Mahamat said after a meeting between heads of state of the AU and European Union.