OIC Relocates Displaced People on the Libyan Borders

RAS JDIR (Tunisia), April 6 (Bernama) -- The Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) has started relocating displaced people on the Tunisian-Libyan border in a humanitarian plan which had been developed since the beginning of stranded people crisis on the Libyan borders with Tunisia and Egypt, reports Turkey's Anadolu news agency.

The OIC has dispatched a plane that transported the displaced Sudanese from Ras Jdir on the Tunisian border to the Sudanese capital, Khartoum. It also dispatched another plane which transported refugees from Mali to their country.

This evacuation plan, which will also include transporting Mauritanians to their home country, is to continue until the end of next week.

The evacuation operations are financed by Islamic humanitarian organizations from the Republic of South Africa, including the Organization of the Islamic Waqf.

In the meantime, the OIC has embarked on distribution of large quantities of relief items to about 7,000 people in displacement camps in Ras Jdir.

-- BERNAMA