12:34 ET<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nNiger’s government has appealed for help to deal with some 59,000 Africans who have fled Libya since February.<\/p>\n
The International Organization of Migration told the BBC many of them arrive penniless and in a bad condition after gruelling desert trips.<\/p>\n
The IOM’s Abibatou Wane said the influx from Libya was expected to continue.<\/p>\n
Many sub-Saharan Africans have worked for years in Libya in low-paid jobs in the oil, agriculture and construction sectors or as domestic servants.<\/p>\n
The Libyan uprising against Col Muammar Gaddafi’s rule has developed into an armed conflict pitting rebels against government forces and drawing in a Nato-led coalition with a UN mandate to protect civilians.<\/p>\n
The UN believes at least 335,000 people have fled Libya since the beginning of the conflict, including at least 200,000 foreign nationals.<\/p>\n
Vulnerable<\/span><\/p>\nNiger’s new cabinet has asked for donor assistance for the thousands of mainly Niger nationals who have arrived in the last few months, now staying in over-stretched camps or with families struggling to cope with the newcomers.<\/p>\n
Most people have been arriving in Dirkou, in northern Niger, the first major town after travelling from the border with Libya.<\/p>\n
“When they arrive they’re in a really really bad condition especially those coming from Dirkou – because the journey is very hard, they are travelling three or four days in trucks,” Ms Wane told the BBC’s Focus on Africa programme.<\/p>\n
Those arriving in recent weeks have been much more vulnerable, often with no luggage.<\/p>\n
“They are coming with nothing,” she said.<\/p>\n
So far, IOM’s figures show about 54,000 people fleeing from Libya have arrived at Dirkou, another 1,000 via Algeria and 4,000 by plane, Ms Wane said.<\/p>\n
In the last few days, two flights a day have been arriving from Egypt with people who have escaped the besieged rebel-held city of Misrata.<\/p>\n
The IOM has been helping with food and medical assistance for the returning migrants – and with transporting them back to their homes in Niger or elsewhere in West Africa.<\/p>\n
“In Libya they were working and sending money and helping their families,” Ms Wane said.<\/p>\n
Now communities were doubly affected by hosting the returnees and by the drop in income from Libya, she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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