Tunisia and Libya took back 276 sub-Saharan migrants stranded in a desert region along the border between the two countries and brought them to shelters on Thursday. Tunisia has been blamed for dumping the migrants in the sizzling heat in the no-man’s land near the border post of Ras Jedir. Libya said Wednesday that 27 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa were found dead by Libyan authorities in the western desert near the Tunisian border. Tunisia’s coast – and specifically the eastern port city of Sfax – has recently taken over from Libya as the main jumping off point for African migrants setting off in fragile boats for Europe across the Mediterranean Sea. Tunisian Interior Ministry spokesman Faker Bouzghaya told The Associated Press that they took charge of a group that was sheltered by the Tunisian Red Crescent and the Libyan side did the same so that the migrants were evacuated from the zone, A consensual solution was reached to end the problem of the presence of illegal immigrants in the border area between the two countries,” a Libyan statement said.