UN Expedite Repatriation of Migrants to their Countries.

Tunis, 6 December 2017(Lana) The International Organisation for Migration IOM has said it was accelerating repatriation of thousands of migrants from Libya to their countries. The Organisation said it plans to evacuate up to 15,000 by the end of the year. The move was designed to ease crowdedness at the concentration camps, where the number of migrants increased as a result of a halt in boat trafficking activities across the Mediterranean to Italy, it said. IOM has repatriated 14500 migrants to their countries this year as part of a voluntarily repatriation scheme. Influx of migrants into Libya has increased since 2014, where more than 600,000 have cross to Italy in the last three years, But the boat journeys to Italy have decreased in July after armed groups in Sabrata banned the boats from leaving. 'I noticed that an increase in the number of those willing to voluntarily return after what happened in Sabrata, said Ashraf Hasan Head of IOM Repatriation Program. 400 have been transported to Nigeria on Tuesday from the capital Tripoli and Misrata, Hasan said. =Lana=