The Libyan border guards have rescued between 50-70 refugees and migrants who have been left in the desert by Tunisian authorities without water or food, and their numbers are “rising”, a Libyan official told the AFP.
Hundreds of refugees and migrants fled or were forced out of Tunisia’s Sfax after racial tensions flared following the July 3 killing of a Tunisian man in an altercation between locals and Black sub-Saharan Africans.
Tunisian rights groups said on Friday that 100 to 150 people, including women and children, were still stuck on the border with Libya.
