{"id":221299,"date":"2025-01-22T11:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T11:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/22\/libya-deports-613-migrants-headed-for-europe\/"},"modified":"2025-01-22T11:59:11","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T11:59:11","slug":"libya-deports-613-migrants-headed-for-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/22\/libya-deports-613-migrants-headed-for-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Libya Deports 613 Migrants Headed for Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Libya<\/div>


\n<\/p>\n

\n
\n

The 613 men had traveled from their native Niger to neighboring Libya, where many of them planned to reach Europe over the Mediterranean Sea, a journey thousands of people from sub-Saharan Africa endeavor to make every year.<\/p>\n

But late last month, the men were deported by Libyan authorities in one of the country\u2019s largest expulsions in years. The mass deportation is part of a common pattern: North African governments, funded by the European Union to tackle migration, using brutal tactics to block sub-Saharan Africa migrants from heading to Europe.<\/p>\n

The 613 men reached Niger\u2019s closest town to the Libyan border on Jan. 3, disheveled and hungry, some barefoot and sick after months of detention and days of travel across the Sahara. Two of the men died shortly after arriving in Niger.<\/p>\n

\u201cI lived through hell,\u201d said Salmana Issoufou, one of the men. Mr. Issoufou, 18, said he had been beaten by Libyan prison guards with wires and weapons throughout his eight-month detention.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n