Latest from refugee camps at Tunisian-Libyan border

Описание: (10 Mar 2011)
1. Wide of Shousha refugee camp
2. Various of refugees sitting on ground
3. Crowd of people standing under trees
4. Mid of refugees carrying tent on shoulders
5. Refugees lying on ground
6. Wide of refugees carrying tent on shoulders
7. Mid of refugees standing near bus with bags
8. Wide of Sudanese refugees on grass
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hamdan Hamed, Sudanese refugee:
"The solution we need from Sudan's government is to evacuate us as soon as possible, and we are appealing to all international organisations to evacuate all Africans and anyone with black skin from Libya very soon. Libyan people used to like us before as Africans and as black people, but now they don't want us and frankly they didn't want us."
10. Mid of refugees erecting tent
11. Close-up of Sudanese refugee
12. Wide of main road near refugee camp lined with buses
13. Ras Ajdir border crossing
14. Mid of Tunisian security officers checking cars with sniffer dogs
15. Security officers checking cars
16. Close-up of security officer checking refugee's papers, pull out to wide of checkpoint
STORYLINE:
Thousands of people fleeing political turmoil in Libya are waiting to return to their native countries at a refugee camp at the Tunisian border.
Many of the refugees at the Shousha camp near the Ras Ajdir border crossing are Sudanese.
The United Nations refugee agency expressed alarm this week at what it called rising violence by armed Libyans against sub-Saharan Africans, both in the rebel-controlled eastern portions and in Moammar Gadhafi's stronghold in the west.
Some Sudanese civilians fleeing Libya appealed on Thursday to both their government and international aid organisations to help evacuate fellow Africans.
One refugee, Hamdan Hamed, said: "Libyan people used to like us before as Africans and as black people, but now they don't want us and frankly they didn't want us."
Fear is intense among Africans in Libya because of widespread tales of "African" mercenaries hired to do Gadhafi's killing for him.
In some cities, suspected mercenaries have been lynched.
Aid agencies organising the repatriation of foreign nationals from the border camps are struggling to deal with the large numbers pouring in every day.
For those from countries that are themselves caught up in unrest and violence, officials currently have no solution.
UN refugee officials also reported that many people had their documents confiscated or destroyed.
As of Tuesday, 224,661 migrants had reached Libya's borders with Tunisia, Egypt, Niger and Algeria since 20 February, according to the latest International Organisation for Migration figures.
Of those, 115,399 reached the Tunisia border; 101,609 got to the Egyptian border, 5,448 went to Algeria; and 2,205 fled to Niger.

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