General News of Thursday, 8 March 2018Source: Graphic.com.ghGhanaians set up camps on desert to facilitate human trafficking to LibyaShirley Ayorkor Botchway, Foreign Affairs MinisterSome Ghanaians have set up camps across the Sahara desert where they exploit and traffic fellow Ghanaians as slaves in Libya, according to a report of a fact-finding team. She said the ghetto leaders, who were mostly Ghanaians, had set up camps or ghettos along the routes, which they operated in collaboration with their partners in Ghana. Ms Botchway said between 10,000 and 18,000 Ghanaians were currently resident in Libya. She said a sizable number of the Ghanaians were legally resident with some having lived in Libya for more than two decades. He said those Ghanaians were being held in Libya against their will and so the state must intervene to secure their freedom.

Source: GhanaWeb March 07, 2018 16:18 UTC