Last updated: 8 june, 2010 - 16:02 GMT

UN refugee agency expelled from Libya

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The United Nations Refugee agency (UNHCR) have been ordered to leave Libya.

They received the news last week but the decision was only made public today.

The UNHCR currently looks after some 9,000 refugees and nearly 4,000 asylum seekers.

BBC Focus on Africa's Sophie Ikenye asked Sybella Wilkes, a spokesperson for the UNHCR in Geneva, how they heard the news.

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