The IOM estimates that there remain more than 60 000 Nigerians in Libya among roughly 600 000 migrants from 39 nations, most of them with no legal documents, held in camps, prisons, private houses or brothels. Since 2017, more than 14,000 Nigerians who have flown back on chartered planes from Libya under a voluntary program organized by the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
About 35 percent of those who have returned are women. These migrants were placed in detention centers, prisons, brothels and parallel centers run by mafias.
Migrants and the aid workers in Nigeria helping them say that most children born in Libya and brought back to Nigeria by their mothers have African, not Libyan, fathers.
It is worth noting that hundreds of women in Libya are victims of rape, torture, and sexual slavery while others have even been deprived of food.
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