Sweden pledges to accept 150 Darfuri migrants fleeing Libya

Sweden has agreed to accept 150 Darfuri refugees, a source on the Libya-Egypt border told Radio Dabanga. Mustafa Abakr, the spokesperson of Darfuri migrants who fled Libya to Egypt, said from the Salom gate that the Embassy of Sweden had pledged to provide refuge to 150 on the 28^th of the current month. He stated that the US has proposed to receive 200 others who are trapped at Salom gate on the Egyptian border after refusing to return to Sudan for political reasons. He also confirmed that the number of trapped Darfuri migrants at the gate could reach up to 550 people.

For its part, the Arab Alliance for Darfur said that the number displaced people coming from Darfur and trapped at Salom gate on the Egyptian-Libyan border has reached 362. The alliance said that 50 of those are women and children, while another 200 migrants are in the area of Angu on the Libya-Chad border, facing difficult circumstance and harsh living and health conditions.  The alliance, which is based in Cairo, urged in a report that all the UN organizations protect the refugees and displaced people and reintegrate them in a third country, fearing that they would be raided, investigated, arrested or tortured by the security bureau if they return to Sudan, as others were before them.