Tunisia and Libya announce that they have agreed to share responsibility for providing shelter for hundreds of asylum seekers stranded in a border area
Libyan border guard provide water to migrants of African origin who reportedly have been abandoned by Tunisian authorities, following their arrival in an uninhabited area near Al Assah on the Libya-Tunisia border. / Photo: AFP Archive
Faker Bouzghaya, a spokesperson for Tunisia's Interior Ministry, said on Thursday during a joint meeting with Libyan authorities in Tunis that"we have agreed to share the groups of migrants who are at the border". He said the groups were transferred on Wednesday to reception centres in the cities of Tatouine and Medenine and provided with health and psychological care, with the help of the Tunisian Red Crescent.
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