It has being learn't that about 1500 nationals of West African countries who were forced out of different parts of Libya by the country’s authorities have reached Agades in Niger Republic.
A Nigerian journalist who reports from the Nigeria-Niger border disclosed that the distressed returnees are mostly Nigeriens, Senegalese, Nigerians, and Ghanaians.
The source said the returnees were being attended to by members of the Red Cross. “Red Cross officials are checking their heath condition,” said the reporter, adding that many of the expelled West Africans had endured extreme hardship at the hands of Libyan authorities. “Most of them were in detention before they were forcibly deported. They were forced by Libyan officials to travel in caravan buses across the desert, all the way to Agades.”
The journalist said that the Nigerians among the deportees had been appealing to the Nigerian government to come to their aid and to help return them to Nigeria. “Many [of the Nigerians] told me that they feel abandoned by their government,”
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