Sunday, March 20, 2011

LABOR ATTACHÉ: MANDATORY EVACUATION FOR OFWS IN TRIPOLI


By Anika Real and Inday Espina-Varona, BMPM
ofw libyaThe Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has ordered the evacuation of some 2,000 Filipino overseas workers (OFWs) in Tripoli.

In a telephone interview with Bayan Mo iPatrol Mo (BMPM), Labor Attaché Nasser Mustafa said the Philippine Embassy started a dissemination drive Sunday morning (Libyan time). There are at least 2,000 Filipinos in the city proper, he said.
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