Ever since a CNN investigation produced footage of West Africans being sold at slave markets sometime in November, human trafficking in Libya has become a burning topic. Stories coming out of Libya have been gruesome, highly unbelievable.
What has been playing out in Libya, a sovereign state in the Maghreb region of North Africa, has been so pathetic, dehumanizing to say the least. Indeed, it is one story that should actually belong to the dark ages.
Libya, it would be recalled, descended into a civil war in 2014, and is widely considered a failed state. Incidentally, the chaos-ridden country has long been a major transit hub for people trying to reach Europe. And many have fallen prey to serious abuse in the North African country at the hands of traffickers among other heartless beings.
So today, all over the media, pictures are being…
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