Reply #91: Flights evacuate Chadian migrants from Libya-IOM

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Fri Jul 8, 2011 12:33pm GMT

• 370 Chadians airlifted from Libya in IOM planes

• Mines, explosives, pose threat to Libyan children-UNICEF


GENEVA, July 8 (Reuters) - Hundreds of African migrants have been airlifted from government-controlled southern Libya and flown to the capital of Chad -- the first air evacuation by the International Organisation for Migration since the Libyan war broke out.


Some 370 migrants, mainly Chadian, have been evacuated from the Libyan town of Sebha on three flights chartered by the IOM since Wednesday, the agency said on Friday.

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Handicap International and UNICEF also warned on Friday that Libyan children risked being harmed by playing with the growing number of mines and explosive remnants of war scattered in heavily populated areas.


"Our sense is the contamination in Misrata, Ajdabiyah, Nafusa mountains and some areas outside of Benghazi but less now, poses significant risk to children," UNICEF spokesman Marixie Mercado told a news briefing in Geneva.

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http://af.reuters.com/article/chadNews/idAFLDE7670RM20110708?sp=true