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The International Organization for Migration (IOM) announced the successful return of 166 Gambian migrants to their homeland from Tunisia, in a flight organized in cooperation with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
This flight comes within the framework of the “Migrant Protection, Return and Reintegration in North Africa” program funded by the European Union, and includes assistance for migrants to start a new life in their home countries.
The returnees included six women in the group, and is the second of its kind this year, as it was preceded by a flight last May that transported 161 migrants.
These flights are part of a broader strategy that North African countries are working on in cooperation with the European Union, to provide permanent and sustainable solutions for migrants and encourage their voluntary and safe return to their countries of origin.
According to official Tunisian sources, there are approximately 80,000 migrants from sub-Saharan African countries on its territory, of whom about 17,000 are in the city of Sfax alone.
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