The UN Refugee Agency relocated 54 vulnerable refugees from the Emergency Transit Mechanism (ETM) and urban areas in Niger to Italy.
The group, who landed in Rome, consists of refugees from Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia and Sudan.
They include 23 children, 13 of who are separated from their parents and wider family.
Most had previously been held in detention in Libya for prolonged periods, where they faced terrible conditions, awful human rights abuses and the rising threat of being caught up in the hostilities.
This is the second humanitarian relocation from Niger to Italy carried out by UNHCR after a first group of 51 people was transferred in November last year.
Following the evacuation, vulnerable people previously at risk in Libya have been relocated to Italy .
This is since December 2017, including some who were evacuated directly out of the country.
Amidst intensifying violence in Libya, humanitarian evacuation operations to other countries are a crucial lifeline, for vulnerable refugees in detention centres and urban areas in desperate need of security and protection.
Prior to the evacuation, UNHCR has evacuated more than 5,100 refugees and asylum-seekers out of Libya to other countries since 2017. They include 2,913 to Niger and 189 to Rwanda through the Emergency Transit Mechanism.
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