Refugees in limbo after Tunisia shuts desert camp

One morning last month, a group of soldiers arrived unexpectedly at Tunisia’s Choucha refugee camp and began clearing the area of the several dozen men who had been living there. “The soldiers told us to go back to Libya or to board a bus to Tunis,” a 37-year-old refugee from the Ivory Coast who declined to give his name told Al Jazeera. The men were allowed to grab one suitcase or a bag, he added

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"Mongi Slim, the head of the Tunisian Red Crescent in the southern city of Medenine, said that some of the men from Choucha had been acting as guides for refugees aiming to cross the border into Libya and then on to Europe. Others were "in need of psychiatric treatment", Slim told Al Jazeera."