Forgotten migrants who don’t sail to Europe from Libya


  • World
  • Monday, 19 May 2014

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Europe is not the only place where sub-Saharan African migrants aim to start a new life. For years, oil-rich Libya was a magnet but with the country teetering on the edge of chaos they are finding it is no longer a promised land for jobs.

Instead, many migrants encounter a society often hostile towards them and a government ill-equipped to deal with an influx of eager, but also illegal, workers.

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