#Libya @UNHCRLibya "advise" to asylum seekers hosted at gathering &departure facility(GDF) in #Tripoli "We cannot process your case here. You will not be consider for evacuation/resettlement if you stay at the GDF."

Basically, you cannot exist in this place.
Conditional refugees
Imagine you have survived war in #Darfur, experienced human trafficking & abuse while in #Libya & now while asking for protection (that by the way is your right), UNHCR respond that you are in wrong place.

Protecting refugees should not be bonded with the location they are.
Durable solutions offered by @UNHCRLibya:
1/return to your county
2/return to the country of 1° asylum.

For Darfuri refugees > Chad, for Eritreans > Ethiopia.

1/Chad is home to ½ million refugees & asylum seekers.
2/The 2° largest refugee population in Africa is in Ethiopia.
Main point.

If people currently inside the GDF have to get out to asks for protection, they will not go to the UN office in Sarraj, but immediately try to cross the Mediterranean.

Is #Italy worried about?
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