{"id":205143,"date":"2025-08-21T10:04:52","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T08:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/nigeria-7000-nigerians-stranded-in-libya-diaspora-commission\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T10:04:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T08:04:52","slug":"nigeria-7000-nigerians-stranded-in-libya-diaspora-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/libya\/nigeria-7000-nigerians-stranded-in-libya-diaspora-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: 7,000 Nigerians Stranded in Libya &#8211; Diaspora Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\"><em>The Chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has raised the alarm over the plight of thousands of Nigerian migrants currently stranded in Libya, describing the situation as deeply troubling.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Speaking at the official launch of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) Strategic Plan for Nigeria (2025-2027) held in Abuja on Tuesday night, Dabiri-Erewa disclosed that no fewer than 7,000 Nigerians remain trapped in the North African country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">&#8220;As we speak,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508210077.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Libya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/libya\/\">Libya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chairman of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM), Abike Dabiri-Erewa, has raised the alarm over the plight of thousands of Nigerian migrants currently stranded in Libya, describing the situation as deeply troubling. Speaking at the official launch of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) Strategic Plan for Nigeria (2025-2027) held in Abuja on Tuesday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":205144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[891],"tags":[258,256,6274,3506,4711,892,257,4687,6665,254,7248],"class_list":["post-205143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-libya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-commission","tag-diaspora","tag-libya","tag-libya-news","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigerians","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stranded"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}