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Africa North
Hundreds of migrants in Libya flee detention, cite hunger
2019-10-31
[AlAhram] Hundreds of migrants colonists have fled a detention center in coastal Libya and crowded overnight around a UN facility, saying they were denied food for weeks.
*sigh* The problem with voluntarily entering an active war zone is that the grocery situation tends to be non-existent — especially for impoverished non-participants.
Around 450 people left Abu Salim detention center late Tuesday. One of the migrants colonists, as well as activists, say they were forced to beg for money from families to pay police to buy them food. Those who couldn't pay went hungry.

The migrant spoke Wednesday on condition of anonymity, fearing for his safety. They walked about 90 minutes through the city of Tripoli
...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn...
, according to Tarik Lamloum, a Libyan activist.

The UN refugee agency says the facility is already overcrowded, with about half the 800 people inside arriving informally, including many from another detention center that was hit last summer by an Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
...and more than the grocery situation is uninterested in nobodies that nobody sent.
Posted by:trailing wife

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