More than 4,000 Algerians in Libya should go to Egypt, advises Algiers

12 March, 2011

ALGIERS - More than 4,000 Algerians still in Libyan cities should try to reach Egypt if they want to be evacuated to their home countries, said a senior Algerian Halim Benatallah.

"We've advised our citizens to reach the Egyptian border beyond which we can repatriate them," said Benatallah, Secretary of State at the Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs in charge of the national community abroad, quoted by the press Saturday.

In total, the Algerian community in Libya is estimated at 8,200 people, said the minister during a press briefing Friday in Bejaia, 260 km east of Algiers. "No one in Benghazi", the main town of the east in the hands of anti-Gaddafi. "Some of those who remain in Libya are in isolated areas," he said.

Since the outbreak of violence in this border country of Algeria, some 4,000 citizens were evacuated. The last came by boat from Benghazi and Tripoli, alongside over 500 other nationalities March 3 aboard Tassili II, dispatched by the authorities to Libya.

Others came voluntarily from southern border between the two countries.

Source: Ennahar.
Link: http://www.ennaharonline.com/en/news/6006.html.