The Gambia announced on Sunday that it had brought home nearly 321 of its nationals intercepted on the exile route recently, more than half of whom were stranded in Libya, via Morocco, Senegal, and Mauritania.
The migrants arrived on board three boats carrying migrants from West Africa.
On June 24, 156 Gambians were evacuated from Libya, where they had been stranded after being deported from Tunisia and dropped at the Libyan border.
Tunisia has relocated hundreds of Sub-Saharan African migrants to a remote desert location near its border with Libya.
Sfax, Tunisia’s commercial center, is teeming with thousands of African migrants attempting to reach Europe by boat from local coastal towns, in an exodus that marks the North African country’s first-ever migration crisis.
Tunisian President Kaïs Saïed’s hateful, xenophobic speech–made in February at a state summit–precipitated this assault against Sub-Saharan migrants in Tunisia, resulting in the current crisis.