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Some Ghanaians caught up in the on-going political crisis in the Libyan city of Benghazi say they are stranded and would want government come to their rescue.
A number of them spoke to Asempa News from their hideout in Tripoli, the Libyan capital where they have taken refuge as a result of the mass pro-democracy protests in Benghazi leaving several people dead and injured. They say the Ghana Embassy in Libya has been adamant despite their plea for help.
But Ghana’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Alhaji Mohammed Mumuni explains that until the Ghana Libya Mission officially investigates the situation and submit their reports he cannot make a statement on the situation.
“I have a mission in Tripoli and I have to tell them to investigate and file a report to me, until then I have to decline to grant you an interview on this subject my brother” the Foreign Minister said.
Contacts made at the Ghana mission in Libya by Asempa News were unsuccessful as phone calls were not answered.
The BBC reports more than 200 people are known to have died, doctors say, with 900 injured. The bloodiest attacks were reported over the weekend, when a funeral procession was said to have come under machine-gun and heavy weapons fire.
It is believed there are about 4, 000 Ghanaians living in various towns and cities across the Saharan nation.
Kwadwo Asare-Baffour Acheampong/Asempa FM/Ghana
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