By Dan Calabrese ——Bio and Archives--December 1, 2017
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The CNN footage showed youths from Niger and other sub-Saharan countries being sold to buyers for about $400 (£300) at undisclosed locations in Libya. The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has flown 10,000 migrants home from Libya this year under a voluntary repatriation plan. Mr Macron said the EU, UA and UN had agreed to bolster support for the OIM to "help Africans who so wish to return to their countries of origin". The IOM said that a big increase in voluntary repatriation flights from Libya was expected as a result of “moral outrage around the world” prompted by the video of the slave market. In Wednesday's talks, leaders also decided to "set up a proactive communication campaign destined for Africans to denounce human trafficking in Libya and to discourage those who fall for the sirens of smugglers promising the earth". The UN, at France's request, will hold a special Security Council session on the stranded migrants in Libya this week. Libya has promised to investigate the slavery claims, and to set up a “transit and departure facility” in Tripoli for people in need of international protection and help in being sent to third countries. Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari said that all Nigerians stranded in Libya and other parts of the world will be brought home and "rehabilitated," calling it appalling that "some Nigerians were being sold like goats for few dollars".
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