[AlAhram] Libyan authorities and the United Nations
...an idea whose time has gone...
' migration agency on Wednesday repatriated 91 migrants colonists to Niger, mainly women and young children, in a rare humanitarian flight.
"Today we facilitated a flight with the International Organization for Migration for the voluntary departure of 91 migrants colonists," said Lieutenant Colonel Hussein Amin al-Terki, responsible for returns of irregular migrants colonists through Misrata airport.
The flight, only the second since such trips were suspended two years ago, included 60 children, 25 women and six men, he told AFP.
The IOM late last month flew 127 Gambia
... The Gambia is actually surrounded by The Senegal on all sides but its west coast. It has a population of about 1.7 million. The difference between the two is that in colonial days Senegal was ruled by La Belle France and The Gambia (so-called because there's only one of it, unlike Guinea, of which there are the Republic of Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, New Guinea, the English coin in circulation between 1663 and 1813, and Guyana, which sounds like it should be another one) was ruled by Britain...
ns back to their home country in the first flight since the suspension ended.
Libya plunged into a decade of violence following the fall and killing of dictator Moamer Qadaffy in a 2011 uprising, and the resulting lawlessness led to a surge in sub-Saharan African migrants colonists using its shores for desperate bids to reach Europe. Many are intercepted en route by the Libyan coastguard, backed by European states, and returned to Libyan detention centers. 
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