Libya plans to
expel 271 migrants from sub-Saharan countries in a fresh crackdown on illegal
immigration to and through the North African country, state news agency LANA
said on Tuesday.
The emigrants
will be deported to their home countries Chad, Niger, Eritrea, Ghana, Sudan and
Nigeria, LANA said, quoting immigration officials.
Many migrants
from sub-Saharan Africa head to this oil producing country to escape from
desperate conditions in their own countries and find work here, or risk the
perilous journey across the Mediterranean to Europe.
