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Eastern Libyan authorities have sent hundreds of Sudanese back to their war-torn home country, officials said Saturday, in a crackdown on migrants seeking to flee conflict and poverty for Europe by way of the the Mediterranean nation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Seven hundred Sudanese who were detained recently in central and southeastern Libya, were deported Friday by land to\u00a0Sudan, the Directorate for Combating Illegal Migration in eastern Libya said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The statement said some of the deportees suffered from infectious diseases including hepatitis and AIDS. Others were deported because of either criminal convictions or \u201csecurity reasons,\u201d it said, without elaborating.<\/p>\n

The deportation was part of an ongoing crackdown campaign on migrant trafficking in eastern Libya, which is controlled by forces of\u00a0powerful military commander Khalifa Hifter.<\/p>\n

Last week, the coast guard in eastern Libya said it intercepted a boat carrying 80 Europe-bound migrants off the eastern city of Tobruk.<\/p>\n

The campaign includes raids on trafficking hubs across eastern and southern Libya. A raid earlier this month freed 104 Sudanese migrants, including women and children, who were held in a trafficking warehouse in the town of Ajdabiya, about 480 miles (800 kilometers) east of the capital, Tripoli, according to town security authorities.<\/p>\n

Libya has in recent years become a transit point for those fleeing wars and poverty in the Middle East and Africa, and seeking a better life in Europe.\u00a0Human traffickers\u00a0have benefited from more than a decade of instability, smuggling migrants across Libya\u2019s borders with six nations, including Chad, Niger, Sudan Egypt, Algeria and Tunisia.<\/p>\n

The North African country was plunged into chaos following a NATO-backed uprising that toppled and killed longtime\u00a0autocrat Muammar Gaddafi\u00a0in 2011. Oil-rich Libya has been ruled for most of the past decade by rival governments in eastern and western Libya, each backed by an array of militias and foreign governments.<\/p>\n

Thousands of Sudanese have fled to Libya since their country plunged into chaos in April 2023 after simmering tensions between the Sudanese military and a powerful paramilitary group exploded into street fighting across the country.<\/p>\n

They are among the more than 240,000 Sudanese migrants who live in Libya, according to the U.N.\u2019s International Organization for Migration.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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