Koraki

In April this year, Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar declared that he would ‘push the (Libyan government) out of Tripoli’. Since then, he has killed 1,000 people and injured at least 5,000, as well as twice attacking refugee camps, the second time at Tajoura on 2 July, killing 53 people who live there. Today (16 July), the Libyan government publicly demanded to know why Haftar’s troops are carrying French weapons. This piece is a guide to Libya’s second civil war, which is now i

France has threatened sanctions against the Libyan ‘government’ after French President Emmanuel Macron denounced the sale of men into slavery in Libya as ‘a crime against humanity’. It has been well-known to the EU’s investigators, and indeed to almost anyone who has taken any serious interest in Libya since 2015, that refugees arriving in the state are regularly being kidnapped, beaten, ransomed, in some cases raped, tortured and murdered or sold into slavery, under which ci