Thousands of foreign migrant workers in Libya's rebel-
held port of Benghazi were evacuated and minimum 10,000
other inside libya were heading for a border crossing
at Salloum, Egypt the officials said, at the Libya-
Tunisia border, thousands spent the night in a 20,000
capasity tent camp, awaiting evacuation. There has
been a marked drop in the number of migrant workers
coming across the border, from a peak of 20,000
several days ago to between 1,400 and 1,800, the
U.N. said. On Saturday, only 500 had crossed into
Tunisia by midday, said a U.N. official at the border.
International migration officials say 191,748 people,
mainly migrant workers, had left Libya. Of those,
104,275 crossed into Tunisia, 84,973 went to Egypt,
2,500 went to Niger and 4,000 went to Algeria.
held port of Benghazi were evacuated and minimum 10,000
other inside libya were heading for a border crossing
at Salloum, Egypt the officials said, at the Libya-
Tunisia border, thousands spent the night in a 20,000
capasity tent camp, awaiting evacuation. There has
been a marked drop in the number of migrant workers
coming across the border, from a peak of 20,000
several days ago to between 1,400 and 1,800, the
U.N. said. On Saturday, only 500 had crossed into
Tunisia by midday, said a U.N. official at the border.
International migration officials say 191,748 people,
mainly migrant workers, had left Libya. Of those,
104,275 crossed into Tunisia, 84,973 went to Egypt,
2,500 went to Niger and 4,000 went to Algeria.
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