François never thought he would end up staying for many months in Bu Rshad immigrants housing centre in the Libyan district of Gharyan. When he paid the “middleman” a $600 fee for a month-long safe journey, Gharyan was merely a checkpoint on his rout to Europe.
Hundreds of illegal migrants from sub-Saharan countries arrive daily to the Libyan city of Ghat in the far south-west, at about 1,500 kilometers from the capital Tripoli.
Since the outbreak of the revolution in Libya, Ghat knew waves of illegal migrants from sub-Saharan countries, especially from Niger as well as Libyans displaced from regions because of the armed conflict.
The four Libyan schools in Tunisia are facing excessive numbers of pupils. And this is negatively affecting the level of tuition. The growth is due to the ever more important exodus of Libyan families to Tunisia. The families are running away from the situation in their country, notably the bombings in Tripoli. Hence the total number of school pupils is now 1884, of which 1504 are in primary school and 380 in high school.
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