'We are dying': Migrants' plea from Libya-Tunisia border
Migrants rescued by Tunisia's national guard during an attempted crossing of the Mediterranean by boat, rest on the beach at the port of el-Ketef in Ben Guerdane in southern Tunisia near the border with Libya, on December 15, 2021. PHOTO | AFP
African migrants pleaded to be saved from a desert zone between Libya and Tunisia on Wednesday, weeks after Tunisian authorities allegedly dumped dozens of them there with nothing.
"We are dying. We are dying by the minute," a Nigerian who wanted to be identified only by his first name, George, told AFP.
