Showing posts with label Benghazi Libya. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Benghazi Libya. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Benghazi, the city of insurgents in search of normality

The border between Egypt and Libya on a hill overlooking the town Saloom. At six o'clock in the morning the only ones awake here are the five soldiers who, wrapped in blankets, blocking the road and control the few cars on the border. In the square in front of the immigration office are hundreds of people camped out, covered with nylon sheeting UNCHR, the UN agency for refugees.

Women and children wait inside where it's a bit 'hotter. They fled from their homes with the start of the war and the only safe haven they have found so far is this. The Egyptian border police have a wooden table. The officers drank tea and discussed the bureaucratic procedures are paid quickly.