2023-08-10 12:45:05
Tunisia and Libya announced on Thursday, August 10 that they had reached an agreement to share the reception of sub-Saharan migrants stranded, some for a month, near the Ras Jedir border post, after being taken there by the Tunisian police, according to ONG and UN agencies.
During a meeting between the interior ministers of the two countries in Tunis on Wednesday, “we agreed to share the groups of migrants present on the border”a spokesman for the Tunisian ministry told AFP.
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According to humanitarian sources at AFP, in recent days there were still three groups of a total of around 300 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa, stranded in very precarious conditions on a strip of land by the sea. , in the buffer zone of Ras Jedir.
“Tunisia will take care of a group of 76 men, 42 women and 8 children”Interior Ministry spokesman Faker Bouzghaya told AFP.
The Libyan Interior Ministry was the first to announce the conclusion of a bilateral agreement “for a consensual solution, in order to put an end to the crisis of irregular migrants, stranded in the border area”.
On the Tunisian side, an official statement was limited to announcing that Tunisian Minister Kamel Feki had received his Libyan counterpart Imed Trabelsi, stressing the need for “coordination of efforts to find solutions that take into account the interests of both countries”.
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Libya to welcome around 150 migrants
The agreement provides that the Libyans will take care of the rest of the stranded migrants, around 150, according to the Tunisian official spokesman.
“The transfer of the group took place yesterday (Wednesday) in reception centers in Tataouine and Medenine with the participation of the Red Crescent” Tunisian, he added.
There were up to 350 people stranded in Ras Jedir, including 12 pregnant women and 65 children and minors, according to humanitarian sources who told AFP that most of the aid (food, water, medical care) had been brought to them since July 20 by the Libyan Red Crescent, supported by UN agencies.
After the death on July 3 in Sfax (center-east) of a Tunisian during a fight with migrants, “at least 2,000 sub-Saharan nationals” have been “expelled” by the Tunisian security forces and deposited in inhospitable areas on the Libyan and Algerian borders, according to other humanitarian sources at AFP.
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