Trafficking on human misery: encountering plight of undoc’d migrants fleeing Libya
AA commissions investigation into how Libyan smugglers transport undocumented migrants from the restive N.African state into Europe, via Italy. LONDON Anadolu Agency recently commissioned an investigation into how Libyan smugglers transport undocumented migrants from the restive North African state into Europe, via Italy. Our correspondent Assed Baig posed as a migrant trying to reach the Italian island of Lampedusa in […]
Undocumented migrants face tough time inside Libya’s detention system
TRIPOLI Since the fall of Gadhafi, African migrants mainly from Chad, Niger and Mali have been flocking to Libya hoping to get work or a boat to Italy. AA reporter Assed Baig goes to detention centres in Tripoli to meet some of them. Armed men guard the entrance of the zoo in Tripoli, some are […]