On 5 July, DW published an article by Jennifer Holleis and Islam Alatrash titled ‘Migrants flock to Libya despite lack of law and order’. The article looks at the ongoing influx of migrants to Libya and Tunisia, which have become ‘North Africa's most popular departure points for migrants from sub-Saharan countries’ over the past five years. This comes with widespread human rights violations against migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Libya. According to the UN, those include trafficking, torture, forced labour, extortion, starvation in intolerable detention conditions, mass expulsions and the sale of human beings.
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