Date: Tuesday, 10 September 2019
A first group of 500 refugees from the Horn of Africa will be evacuated in coming weeks out of 4,700 now estimated to be in custody in Libya, under a new “transit mechanism” partly funded the European Union (EU), UNHCR spokesman Babar Baloch said.
“It is a lifeline,” Baloch told a Geneva briefing.
Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay; Editing by Andrew Heavens