Most experienced extreme hardship on the route: reports of beatings, rapes and torture in Libya are common. The EU backed the deal at the summit, providing an additional €200m ($216m) to an EU fund for Africa (already worth €1.8bn), and confirming plans to train up the Libyan coast guard. Libya today is close to lawless: the GNA has limited control outside of Tripoli, the capital, while the coast is ruled by competing militias. The EU is mulling getting neighbouring countries, such as Tunisia or Egypt, involved, but the plans are vague. The Italian government has been complaining to the EU about the failure to tackle African migration for decades.

Source: Libya Today February 08, 2017 01:07 UTC