Dumped in the desert

Libyan border guards providing water to migrants from Africa stuck in the desert. — Reuters

EXHAUSTED pregnant and weeping, Sudanese nurse Tafaul Omar sat under the scorching desert sun along with 14 other migrants who said they had been arrested by Tunisian authorities and dumped in the border area with Libya – a practice Tunisia denies.

The group of men and women from Sudan, Senegal, Ghana and Mali had walked for four hours before a Libyan border patrol that Reuters accompanied found them and gave them water and food, Omar and the others said.