Libya Deports Migrants to Stop Slave Trade

Addis Ababa — LIBYA is to deport 15 000 migrants before the end of the year as part of plans to address the auctioning of the foreign nationals as slaves.

The African Union (AU) and International Organisation for Migration (IOM) have put in place a Voluntary Humanitarian Evacuation of Migrants plan to facilitate the repatriations.

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