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58. Evacuation of sub-Saharan migrants stranded in Sabha delayed by NTC vetting--Reuters

AJE Live Blog posts this:

Reuters: Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) is insisting on vetting 3,000 mainly sub-Saharan migrants stranded in the southern town of Sabha before they are evacuated abroad because it wants to ensure that none were mercenaries fighting for deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi, an aid agency said on Friday.

http://blogs.aljazeera.net/liveblog/libya-sep-16-2011-1343

The very brief Reuters report includes this quote from Jumbe Omari Jumbe, spokesman of the International Organization for Migration (IOM):

"We have to stop all the evacuation process for the time being because the NTC says they have to make sure of the migrants, to register them and to identify who is a real migrant and who is not," he said.

http://af.reuters.com/article/libyaNews/idAFL5E7KG10820110916

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