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World Service,2 mins

Can African leaders stop criminals enslaving migrants?

World Business Report

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The African Union, European Union and United Nations plan to close down people smuggling networks and repatriate stranded migrants, to prevent a major human rights disaster in Libya. Images of migrants being sold as slaves at an auction by Libyan criminals has shocked politicians, who say they are determined to take emergency action to arrest people traffickers and shut their networks. The 麻豆社's Thomas Naadi has been talking to some young migrants who have returned to Ghana after suffering abuse from criminal gangs in Libya. (Picture: Cameroon's President Paul Biya, Togo's President Faure Gnassingbe and the President of Gabon Ali Bongo at an AU summit with the European Union in Ivory Coast. Issouf Sanogo//AFP/Getty Images.)

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