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Africa-Press – Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>“Today we facilitated a flight with the International Organization for Migration for the voluntary departure of 91 migrants,” said Lieutenant Colonel Hussein Amin al-Terki, responsible for returns of irregular migrants through Misrata airport.<\/p>\n

The flight, only the second since such trips were suspended two years ago, included 60 children, 25 women and six men, he told AFP.<\/p>\n

The IOM late last month flew 127 Gambians back to their home country in the first flight since the suspension ended.<\/p>\n

Libya plunged into a decade of violence following the fall and killing of dictator Moamer Kadhafi in a 2011 uprising, and the resulting lawlessness led to a surge in sub-Saharan African migrants using its shores for desperate bids to reach Europe.<\/p>\n

Many are intercepted en route by the Libyan coastguard, backed by European states, and returned to Libyan detention centres where they often face brutal conditions.<\/p>\n

In early October, interior ministry forces carried out a vast wave of arrests targeting irregular migrants in Tripoli, killing one and injuring 15 as well as detaining 5,000, according to the UN.<\/p>\n

Several days later, guards at a detention centre in the capital shot dead six migrants, the IOM said, as some 2,000 more escaped.<\/p>\n

Several hundred have since been staging a sit-in outside the local office of the UN’s refugee agency UNHCR to demand evacuation from a country they say is unsafe.<\/p>\n

Human Rights Watch said Wednesday that more than 2,000 Africans living in “precarious conditions” outside a closed UN facility were “in dire need of shelter, food, and medical treatment”.<\/p>\n

“By demolishing migrants’ and asylum seekers’ makeshift shelters, Libyan authorities manufactured a humanitarian crisis, leaving thousands of people fending for themselves in the streets,” said Hanan Salah, the group’s Libya director, in a statement.<\/p>\n

“Libya and European states should urgently respond to this rapidly deteriorating situation as people are being exposed to violence and lack … help for basic needs.”<\/p>\n

The statement said that “European states, whose support enables Libyan authorities to prevent people from reaching European shores, should scale up humanitarian evacuations.<\/p>\n

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