- Title: TUNISIA: Foreigners from Libya being put up in border camp
- Date: 27th February 2011
- Summary: RAS JDER, TUNIS LIBYA BORDER (FEBRUARY 26, 2011) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF FOREIGN WORKERS WHO LEFT LIBYA QUEUING AT TUNISIAN ARMY CAMP TO BE PROCESSED BY TUNISIAN SOLDIERS SUITCASES AND BAGS ON GROUND QUEUE OF FOREIGN WORKERS BUS WITH NEW ARRIVALS FROM TUNISIAN LIBYAN BORDER (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) ISLAM FROM EGYPT WHO ARRIVED FROM ZAWIYA IN LIBYA SAYING: "The Libyans have humiliated us a lot, they took our things and our money, it was humiliating." VIEW OF TUNISIAN ARMY CAMP HOSTING FOREIGNERS WHO CROSSED FROM LIBYA INTO TUNISIA (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) SAID ABU BAKER AN ELECTRICIAN FROM MALI SAYING: "The road from Libya is not good, every kilometre there is army and police in big numbers and armed. Problems, lots of problems it does not look good at all." VARIOUS OF FOREIGN WORKERS WHO HAD ARRIVED IN TUNISIA QUEUING AT TENT TO RECEIVE WATER MEN SITTING SMOKING VIEW OF MEN SITTING OUTSIDE TENT TUNISIAN SOLDIERS AT CAMP SOLDIERS IN CAMP WITH TUNISIAN FLAG ON POLE IN BACKGROUND BUILDING INSIDE BORDER CROSSING VARIOUS VIEWS OF BORDER CROSSING WITH LIBYA MAKESHIFT HOSPITAL TENTS AT BORDER
- Embargoed: 14th March 2011 12:00
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- Location: Tunisia, Tunisia
- Country: Tunisia
- Topics: International Relations
- Reuters ID: LVAOR02QHON5LZXBFJ2LIICLRFB
- Story Text: Foreigners working in Libya who have fled the violent unrest there are being accommodated in a border camp run by the Tunisian army while they await transport for their onward journeys home.
Foreign nationals who have crossed from Libya into Tunisia at the border town of Ras Jder queued to be registered at a camp run by the Tunisian army on Saturday (February 26).
The majority of people arriving at the camp were Egyptians and some African nationals who had been working in Libya before they decided to leave during the current turmoil there.
"The Libyans have humiliated us a lot, they took our things and our money, it was humiliating," an Egyptian identified as Islam who works in Zawiya in western Libya, told Reuters after he arrived at the camp by bus.
"The road from Libya is not good, every kilometre there is army and police in big numbers and armed. Problems, lots of problems it does not look good at all," said Mali national Said Abu Baker, who works as an electrician at a hotel in the Libyan capital, Tripoli.
Tunisian soldiers were handing out breakfast food and water and writing down the names of those to arrive at the camp.
Arrangements to transfer the people who had crossed the border transfer them on to planes and ships for their onward journeys home are being worked out. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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