Relief activist: Haftar’s militias are using the immigrant issue for political trading

Anwar Al-Zawi, a relief activist, said that the situation is deplorable in light of the presence of hundreds of displaced people stranded in the middle of the desert, and in the border triangle area between Libya, Sudan and Chad. He expects that the situation will worsen in the city of Kufra for several reasons, including that the municipality’s capabilities are small and will diminish one day. A day later, as the number of displaced people increased, while the municipality did not receive any real support commensurate with the scale of the crisis.

Al-Zawi confirmed, in statements to the Qatari “Al-Arabi Al-Jadeed” website, that the Sudanese migrant crisis in Kufra is likely to get worse, including the issue’s entry into the line of political tensions and mutual statements between the authority of the American militia Khalifa Haftar, which controls the southern Libyan region, and the political leadership in Sudan, adding that there are great fears that the issue of the displaced will become a card for bargaining and pressure.

Al-Zawi believed that the militias of the American Haftar are using the immigrant issue for political trading and to show that they are providing aid only within the framework of media marketing. With the intervention of the security authorities, the activity of volunteers and city officials will decrease, who are aware of the dangers of the issue turning into a security issue for political trading, adding, “Videos of the reception of the displaced reveal the fact that they did not receive aid except for the columns of desert security cars that received them at the border gate before a small number of them reached Kufra.” “.

Al-Zawi believes that political exploitation of the issue of migrants will greatly affect services, especially with regard to isolating them and providing treatment and relief to them, and it is possible that the security authorities will manage their file, adding that the migration movement has begun to head to other areas farther from Kufra, for several reasons, including the city’s overcrowding. And the poor health situation there.