TRIPOLI (Reuters) - A group of 159 Eritrean refugees were flown on Wednesday from the Libyan capital Tripoli to Niger for resettlement, the United Nations said.
The U.N. refugees agency (UNHCR) said that the refugees had been rescued from detention centres seen as "extremely overcrowded and lacking basic standards".
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