Sudanese woman tells of 'horrible' desert journey after expulsion from Tunisia

Tafaul Omar, a pregnant 26-year-old nurse from Sudan, talks to a group of men as she is stranded in the desert on the Libyan-Tunisian border, near Al-Assah, Libya August 5, 2023. REUTERS/Hazem Ahmed

ALASAA, Libya (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 at the weekend and gave them water and food, Omar and the others said.