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Listen To Tale Of Woes From Survival Of Libya Slave Camps (video)

Citizens of Nigeria, the most-populated country on the African continent, have been the largest group of migrants travelling to Libya to try and cross the Mediterranean Sea to Europe.

Nigeria’s government said the rescue flights will continue for as long as necessary, estimating that about 5,500 people would be flown back to their country.

“If I’ll die, I want to die in my country. I have suffered so much in the last few months after I left my great country of Nigeria,” a migrant waiting to fly back home told Al Jazeera, warning others not to make the same mistake he made.

Another said he wanted to go to Italy when he reached Libya. “But now in this situation, I want to go back to my country.”

The UN’s International Organization for Migration said 171,635 migrants and refugees entered Europe by sea during 2017, with nearly 70 percent arriving in Italy. The remainder were divided among Greece, Cyprus and Spain.

This compared with 363,504 arrivals during the same period in 2016, according to the agency.

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