The Ministry of Information has introduced that 165 Ghanaian nationals have been repatriated from Tripoli, Libya.
This was contained in a press release by the Ministry on Thursday, February 8, 2024.
The repatriation was because of a collaboration between Ghana’s Embassy in Tripoli and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM).
According to the Ministry of Information, they’re scheduled to reach on the Kotoka International Airport at 1500 hours GMT.
Meanwhile, the Embassy and the IOM in October 2023 facilitated the repatriation of the fourth batch of 169 Ghanaians from Tripoli to Accra underneath the Voluntary Humanitarian Return (VHR) programme for the yr 2023.
On October 10, 2023 the third batch of returnees of 134 Ghanaian nationals had been additionally repatriated voluntarily from town of Misrata to Ghana underneath VHR programme.
This brings the entire variety of Ghanaian nationals who had benefitted from the VHR programme in 2023 to 629.
In the repatriation course of, precedence was given to individuals in detention centres, sick individuals, households with kids, stranded individuals and destitutes who wanted help to return to Ghana.