Ahmad 
The Department for Combating Illegal Migration in Libya (DCIM), in cooperation with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), on Tuesday (February 6th) deported 133 Chadians after being identified by the Chadian embassy and issued travel documents to facilitate their return to their country.
The Chadian embassy in Libya praised on its official Facebook page the efforts made by the competent Libyan authorities and the International Organization for Migration and their usual good cooperation, and their good humanitarian treatment of all migrants in the shelters.
Chad is a landlocked country in central Africa bordered by Libya to the north, where thousands of African migrants take advantage of the fragile security situation on the common border to reach the Mediterranean coast with the aim of later emigrating to Europe.
In mid-January 2024, the Libyan authorities decided to deport dozens of Egyptians and Africans for infectious diseases such as AIDS and hepatitis, announced by the Department for Combating Illegal Migration in Benghazi.
In the same context, the authorities announced the deportation of 27 illegal immigrants who entered Libyan territory illegally, including 14 Egyptians, adding that they were deported through the Musaed land crossing, in addition to 13 Sudanese and Chadians who were handed over to the Qafoula shelter to be deported to their country.
The Libyan authorities revealed that the Department for Combating Illegal Migration (DCIM), the Oasis branch, deported 87 people infected with the liver epidemic and AIDS, including 17 Sudanese, 62 Chadians and two Egyptians, 2 Bangladeshis and 4 Ethiopians.
The Libyan authorities decided about two months ago to deport 600 Egyptians who entered their territory illegally. Libya’s Department for Combating Illegal Migration in Tripoli said at the time that authorities had decided to deport 600 Egyptian migrants to their country through the Musaed border crossing.
In July, Libyan authorities thwarted an attempt by hundreds of illegal migrants to travel to Italy via the Libyan coast, including 25 Egyptian children aged between 11 and 17.
Hundreds of migrants were seized in a shelter in the city of Tobruk before traveling to Italy, including 25 children, most of them from one village in the northern Egyptian province of Sharqia, authorities said.
Egypt has previously denounced the continued exploitation of the needs of some gangs organized for illegal immigration crimes, exposing their lives to the risks of death, calling for a decisive stand against these gangs.
She stressed that she has taken decisive measures over the past years to develop deterrent laws to confront the crime of illegal immigration and anyone who seeks to engage in organizing or facilitating it, in addition to the measures taken to control the borders that prevent the exit of illegal immigrants through the Egyptian coasts.