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Saturday, March 12, 2016

172 Nigerian migrants, including 6 women, repatriated from Libya



The International Organization for Migration (IOM) helped 172 Nigerian migrants, including 6 women, to return home to Nigeria from Libya on Friday, March 11. One hundred forty-two had spent months in immigration detention centers. The repatriation done in close cooperation with Libyan authorities, Nigeria’s Embassy in Tripoli and the IOM office in Nigeria – was on board a charter flight departing Tripoli’s Mitiga Airport and arriving in Lagos in the morning. Before departure, IOM Libya staff provided clothes, shoes, underwear, and hygiene kits.

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