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Anti-Gaddafi protesters<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

By John Abayomi,<\/p>\n

with agency reports<\/p>\n

In what appears to be a new twist in the ongoing political crisis in Libya, protesters are\u00a0said to be targeting sub-saharan Africans as dozens are\u00a0now feared killed, while hundreds are in hiding in the oil rich country.<\/p>\n

According to Al Jazeera, African migrant workers are targeted because they are suspected of being mercenaries hired by Muammar Gaddafi.<\/p>\n

The Arab media organisation reported that angry mobs of anti-government protesters hunt down \u201cblack African mercenaries,\u201d quoting witnesses accounts.<\/p>\n

90 Kenyans, 64 citizens from South Sudan, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Zambia, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone and Burundi landed in Nairobi on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were being attacked by local people who said that we were mercenaries killing people. Let me say that they did not want to see black people,\u201d Julius Kiluu, a 60-year-old building supervisor, told Reuters.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur camp was burnt down, and we were assisted by the Kenyan embassy and our company to get to the airport,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Rights organisations say that thousands of workers are stranded in camps and private homes, protected by their colleagues as their governments fail to evacuate them from the chaos.<\/p>\n

About 1.5m Sub-Saharan African migrants work in Libya as low-paid labourers in the oil industry, construction, agriculture and service sectors.<\/p>\n

It would be recalled that the Federal Governement evacuated 499 Nigerians from the troubled nation, Sunday out of the estimated 2000 stranded in Tripoli.<\/p>\n

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