8500 Sudanese want to come back from Libya

The number of the Sudanese seeking to return home from Libya has increased following the bloody events in Zawia village. Their numbers reached 8500 persons. The authorities began to expatriate them by land and air to Khartoum and other cities when they assembled in special camps in Libya fearing from being assaulted.

Omar Abd El-Rahman Ser El-Khetm, the minister of the Sudanese cabinet chairmanship said to the journalists following his return from Tripoli yesterday that he reached arrangements with the Libyan authorities to move those who desire to come back home as well as protecting the residents in Libya.

The Sudanese minister added that he delivered the Libyan President Moammar al-Ghadafi a message from president Omar al-Bashir concerning the events in Zawia which led to clashes between the Libyans and members of the African settlements among whom are Sudanese. He said the message urged Ghadafi to contain the situation in the joint cooperation.