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How has human smuggling changed under COVID-19?

By Lucia Bird Ruiz-Benitez de Lugo
May 6, 2020

Concerned about the spread of the coronavirus, many smugglers, armed groups and communities are imposing their own restrictions on movement. Read all our COVID-19 ...

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Ghana Libya Society Top story

“Here we have no life”: The migrant workers persevering in Libya

By Hans Lucht
December 17, 2019

Despite the risks, the plan for Ghanaian workers in Libya is straightforward. Survive, earn, return. Before Kaye and his crew of Ghanaian migrant workers ...

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Libya Rwanda Society

Refugees: Rwanda helps hundreds, but thousands more languish in Libya

By Sophie Neiman
November 7, 2019

International policy towards refugees tends to ignore root causes and often makes humanitarian crises worse. In the last month or so, nearly 200 refugees ...

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Africa Insiders Libya Top story

Insiders Insight: A war on migrants in Libya, supported by Europe

By Africa Insiders
July 10, 2019

African Arguments is and always will be freely-accessible to everyone. But we also have a separate spin-off product called the Africa Insiders Newsletter. It consists of weekly emails with additional ...

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Africa Insiders Libya Politics Top story

Insiders Insight: Haftar overplays his hand in Libya

By Africa Insiders
April 9, 2019

African Arguments is and always will be freely-accessible to everyone. But we also have a separate spin-off product called the Africa Insiders Newsletter. It consists of weekly emails with additional ...

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Libya Photo of the Week

Photo of the Week: Libya, in more hopeful times

By African Arguments
August 25, 2017

Six years on from the fall of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, Libya remains deeply divided and unstable. Rival governments tussle for authority while much political ...

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Libya Society

Dance with the Devil: Europe finances Libyan militias to curb migration

By Leanne Tory-Murphy
August 17, 2017

By empowering Libyan warlords and constraining NGO rescue missions, migrant numbers to Italy have halved. But at what cost? On 10 May, in the ...

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Economy Libya Society

People smuggling in Libya: You can’t bomb away a problem of economics

By Tuesday Reitano & Mark Shaw
January 25, 2017

Europe seems to think force and arms are the solution to reducing people smuggling in the volatile and fluid Libya. Even Gaddafi knew better. Back ...

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