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Libya Herald, 23.12.2012
Libya’s south: migrants’ journeys
By Beata Oleksy
Migrants at the Al-Weigh detention centre await deportation to Chad (Photo: Beata Oleksy)
Tripoli, 23 December
A migrants’ detention centre in Sebha was recently handed over to the Ministry of Interior by a local militia. According to Mohamed Madany, deputy head of the centre, it deports between 400 and 800 people back to their country of origin every month.
“This will be the main deportation centre in the south of Libya”, Khaled Al-Azhari, the facility’s director, said. “We have already done some reconstruction work to improve conditions. We receive people from other centres such as Obari, Jufra or Shatti on a regular basis”.
The majority of migrants come from Chad, Niger, Mali, the Gambia and Burkina Faso but there are also refugees from Somali, Ethiopia and Eritrea. Although Libya is not a signatory to the 1951 Refugee Convention, unofficial dictats exempt Somalis and Eritreans from deportation to their war-torn countries.
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