IOM Facilitates Voluntary Return of Burkinabe Migrants from Libya

IOM yesterday (17/12) helped 178 stranded Burkinabe migrants, including 2 women and 2 children, to return home to Burkina Faso from Libya. Some had spent months in immigration detention centres. The repatriation, in close cooperation with the Libyan authorities, the Burkina Faso Embassy in Tripoli and the IOM office in Burkina Faso, was on board a charter flight that departed Tripoli’s Mitiga Airport… Read more on http://www.africa-newsroom.com/press/iom-facilitates-voluntary-return-of-burkinabe-migrants-from-libya?lang=en