Photo Gallery Migrant Workers Leaving Libya
Refugees from Libya arrive in Agadez, Niger, on overloaded trucks. Since the unrest in Libya began, thousands of migrant workers have been fleeing the country.
Construction worker Lawrence Zadie, 31, was one of 5,000 refugees who arrived in Agadez, Niger, on a single day.
A refugee crisis is now building in Agadez. Most of the migrants coming there had gone to Libya for economic reasons.
Tens of thousands of sub-Saharan Africans have left Libya since the fighting began. Here, migrant workers from Niger are transported to Libya's port of Misrata as part of an evacuation procedure organized by the International Organization for Migration (April 23 photo).
Workers jump off a truck after arriving in the port of Misrata, where they boarded ferries for Benghazi.
Migrant workers arrive in Benghazi on April 24 as part of an IOM-organized evacuation.
A group of migrants arrives in Lampedusa, Italy on April 30. They were among some 500 refugees aboard a boat rescued off the Italian coast.
The boat had sent out an SOS call for help when it hit rough waters about 40 miles from Lampedusa. Here, an Italian coast guard boat (front) takes over refugees from the ferry which had rescued them.
While many migrant workers have been attempting to return to their homelands, many Libyans are also fleeing the violence. Here, Libyans sit in a tent in a newly opened refugee camp for Libyan families in Dehiba, Tunisia.
Vehicles wait in line on the Libyan side of the Wazin border crossing, at the border with Tunisia (April 28 photo).
A Tunisian soldier examines refugees' cars with the help of a sniffer dog at the Dehiba border crossing.
A Libyan refugee waiting at the Dehiba border crossing to Tunisia. According to the International Organization for Migration, over 285,000 people have left Libya for Tunisia since mid-February.
