A migrant sits in a wheelchair as he waits with others before their voluntary return to their country, at a detention center in Tripoli, Libya November 28, 2017. REUTERS/Ismail Zitouny
GENEVA (Reuters) - The U.N. refugee agency on Wednesday welcomed a decision by Libya to open a transit centre for unaccompanied children and other vulnerable refugees from among hundreds of thousands of migrants, and called on EU countries and others to accept them.
Reports this month of white Libyan slave traders selling black African migrants at markets in Libya - a grim echo of the trans-Saharan slave trade in centuries past - have drawn worldwide horror and condemnation.
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