TUNISIA: Libya refugees live in desert tent camp

Record ID: 345329

  • Title: TUNISIA: Libya refugees live in desert tent camp
  • Date: 4th March 2011
  • Summary: RAS JDIR, TUNISIA (MARCH 3, 2011) (REUTERS) WIDE OF TENT CAMP - SAND BLOWING BANGLADESHI EVACUEES COVERING THEIR FACES WALKING AT CAMP VARIOUS OF WHITE UNHCR TENTS, EVACUEES FASTENING TENT UNHOOKED BY THE WIND, TENTS MOVING IN THE WIND EVACUEES CARRYING SUITCASES VARIOUS MORE OF EVACUEES IN CAMP WITH SAND BLOWING VARIOUS OF GHANA VERSUS NIGERIA FOOTBALL MATCH AT CAMP
  • Embargoed: 19th March 2011 12:00
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  • Location: Tunisia, Tunisia
  • Country: Tunisia
  • Topics: International Relations
  • Reuters ID: LVAG83231F8H75XQYNBIQE359TJ
  • Story Text: Migrant workers who fled the violence in Libya have found shelter in a tent camp set up by United Nations refugee agency UNHCR in Tunisia. People living in the camp in the desert near Ras Jdir were securing their tents against the wind and hiding their faces from gusts of sandy wind on Thursday (March 3).
    The refugees pass the time as best they can - teams from Ghana and Nigeria played a soccer match.
    But the priority for most of those fleeing Libya is to secure passage home.
  • Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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