Exodus caused by the First Libyan Civil War (2011) Fleeing the violence of Tripoli by road, as many as 4,000 refugees were crossing the Libya–Tunisia
border daily during the first days of the 2011 civil war. Among those escaping the violence were native Libyans as well as foreign nationals including
Egyptians,
Tunisians and
Turks. By 1 March 2011, officials from the
UN High Commissioner for Refugees had confirmed allegations of discrimination against sub-Saharan Africans who were held in dangerous conditions in the no-man's-land between Tunisia and Libya. On 10 May 2011, The Week posted an article claiming that roughly 746,000 people have fled Libya since the war began. A provisional refugee camp was set up at
Ras Ajdir on the Libyan-Tunisian border and had a capacity for 10,000, but was overflowing with an estimated 20,000 to 30,000 refugees. By 3 March 2011, the situation there was described as a logistical nightmare, with the
World Health Organization warning of the risk of epidemics. To continue responding to the needs of people staying at the Ras Ajdir crossing point in Tunisia, the WFP and
Secours Islamique-France upgraded a kitchen that would provide breakfast for families. Separately, the ICRC advised it was handing over its operations at the
Choucha Camp to the
Tunisian Red Crescent. Since 24 March 2011, the WFP supplied over 42,500 cooked meals for TCNs at the Sallum border. A total of 1,650 cartons of fortified date bars (equivalent of 13.2 metric tons) had also been provided to supplement these meals. Over 500 mostly
Berber Libyans fled their homes in Libya's
Nafusa Mountains and took shelter in the
Dehiba area of southeastern Tunisia between 5 and 12 April 2011.
The Sunday Telegraph reported on 11 September that almost the entire population of
Tawergha, a town of about 10,000 people, had been forced to flee their homes by anti-Gaddafi fighters after their
takeover of the settlement. The report suggested that Tawergha, which was dominated by black Libyans, may have been the subject of an
ethnic cleansing provoked by a combination of
racism and bitterness on the part of
Misratan fighters over the Tawergha's support for Gaddafi during the
siege of Misrata. On 1 October 2011, Red Cross official Abdelhamid al-Mendi said that more than 50,000 Libyans had fled their homes in Benghazi since the war began in February.
After the First Libyan Civil War As of January 2013, there were 5,252 refugees originating from Libya alongside 59,425
internally displaced persons.
Refugees of the Second Libyan Civil War (2014–2020) Some sources estimate that nearly a third of Libya's population, some two million Libyans, has fled to
Tunisia as refugees during the
Second Libyan Civil War, including Tunisian President
Moncef Marzouki. On 30 July 2014, Tunisian Foreign Minister
Mongi Hamdi said that the country cannot cope with the high number of refugees arriving from Libya due to the renewed civil war. He stated "Our country's economic situation is precarious, and we cannot cope with hundreds of thousands of refugees," and added that Tunisia will close its borders if necessary. Many of the
Egyptians living in Libya have also been made refugees due to the conflict, and in August 2014
Algeria opened their border and offered special visas to fleeing Egyptians, allowing them to return to
Egypt through the country. ==Immigration to Europe==